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(LifeSiteNews) – Tesla and SpaceX’s Elon Musk will serve as temporary CEO of Twitter following his impending takeover of the company, replacing current CEO Parag Agrawal, according to a report. 

Twitter announced the $44 billion sale last month, weeks after Musk, a vocal critic of speech discrimination by online communication platforms, revealed his intentions to buy the platform, eliciting a wave of hyperbolic reactions from left-wing users.

CNBC reports that sources have told anchor David Faber that Musk will be CEO “for a few months” following completion of the sale. Reuters had previously reported that Musk had tapped someone else for Twitter’s new CEO; presumably Musk would preside over a transition period before handing the reins off to this unidentified individual.

Either way, the Musk takeover is expected to end a relatively short tenure for Agrawal, who replaced Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey as CEO last November and has been a controversial figure in the platform’s censorship activities. Agrawal has said he views Twitter’s role as “not to be bound by the First Amendment, but…to serve a healthy public conversation.”

Twitter, Facebook, and other major online information and communications platforms have since 2016 grown more aggressive in down-ranking and suppressing political speech at odds with their left-wing politics, most infamously on the COVID-19 debate, election integrity, damaging stories on Democrat candidates, and transgenderism. Recent high-profile targets of Twitter discrimination include Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson, conservative satirical website The Babylon Bee, and Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk.

Among Musk’s reported plans to reform Twitter are a more neutral and hands-off approach to user speech, a crackdown on spam and bot accounts, and making its algorithm public in the interest of transparency.

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