(CNN) Every weekday morning between January 20, 2017, and January 8, 2021, I checked President Donald Trump's Twitter account. A self-avowed champion of "free speech," Musk said that the decision to suspend Trump was "morally wrong" and that it "didn't end Trump's voice. Increasingly, it appears Elon Musk is cut from similar cloth, and gaining similarly outsized influence. He constantly claims to prize free speech, but seems to misunderstand what it is -- and has repeatedly proven himself a hypocrite when it comes to upholding it. Elon Musk's crusade in the name of "free speech" is already exploiting the same weaknesses.

Source: CNN May 13, 2022 00:12 UTC