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If you take this guy seriously, you’re living in a simulation Elon Musk holds out the promise of restoring “free speech” to Twitter. Yesterday the Tesla CEO offered $43 billion dollars to buy the social media platform outright. Conservatives are intoxicated by the idea. If by some miracle the shareholders take the offer, Musk promises to relax speech-policing and make the algorithms open source. Presumably, he’ll continue shitposting from his toilet. If we take Musk at his word, his intention is to open real debate and save our democracy. Then again, he also told us “China rocks,” robot slaves will...

This year’s presidential race can sometimes feel like it has no real winners. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been criticized endlessly in the media for various scandals and gaffes. Thankfully, we have Seth Meyers to give us some perspective on which of these scandals are actually worth discussing. In a segment on Late Night With Seth Meyers, Meyers points out that the actual facts of the scandal suggest that the major issue with Clinton’s emails was that she was unaware that a “C” meant confidential. Similarly, Clinton has been attacked numerous times because of the Clinton Foundation’s intake...