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Tesla CEO Elon Musk reached an agreement Monday to buy social media giant Twitter for about $44 billion. Musk, the world's wealthiest person, has criticized the social media giant's practice of censoring content. "Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated," Musk said in a statement after Monday's agreement was reached. "I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots and authenticating all humans. Twitter has tremendous potential – I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it." Eon Musk will pay $54.20 per share in the deal, which was unanimously approved by the Twitter Board of Directors. Twitter has been mired in accusations of censorship for years, earning particular scorn from cons...