Posted on 06/17/2022 1:27:11 AM PDT by markomalley
The boss of cryptocurrency exchange Binance told AFP on Thursday that he had pledged $500 million to fund Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter to support free speech.
Changpeng Zhao, who goes by CZ, said he used Twitter more than he used his own trading platform and was keen to support it.
"Twitter is probably the most important free speech platform in the world," he told AFP at the VivaTech trade show in Paris.
In April, Tesla boss Musk formulated a plan to buy Twitter for $44 billion, saying he wanted to promote free speech on the platform.
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CZ might well be the 2nd richest man on earth. I’m encouraged to hear he is a free speech ally.
Musk has said that he wants Twitter to be a service that people can’t live without. Methinks CZ sees an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a future financial powerhouse.
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