Why has Elon Musk, champion of free speech, blocked me on Twitter? | Andrew Buncombe

"The truth is, I don’t know why and I don’t know when.

I have to assume it’s not anything to do with money; he, after all, is the richest man in the world. I am not.

I am scratching my brains to think of anything I’ve said ill of the man. As everyone knows, I am the same cheery soul on social media as I am in real life. (Okay, that might be pushing it.)

Yet, the short of it is that Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and well-known tech wizard, would-be real-life superhero of our age, has blocked me on Twitter.

It ain’t the greatest hardship. Someone else can tell me what the 50-year-old has to say, should I need to know. (In truth, and as my editor rather meanly but accurately pointed out, taking the time to block a humble reporter of my ilk would seem to be a job below Musk’s pay grade.) But nevertheless it all feels a little bit odd given that Musk, who just paid $44bn for Twitter, vowed to establish it as safeguard for free speech".