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Separate tech and state.

Senator Ed Markey recently got in touch with his inner monster and threatened Elon Musk,

the new owner of Twitter and the CEO of Electric Car Company Tesla and Space Ventures Company

SpaceX.

He told Musk, fix your companies or Congress will.

As part of the threat, Markey referred to an ongoing National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration investigation into Tesla's autopilot driving system and Twitter's 2011 consent

decree with the Federal Trade Commission.

Markey has done more than make threats.

He is one of a group of Democratic senators who wrote to the FTC urging an investigation

into whether Musk actions as the new owner of Twitter violated the consent decree or consumer

protection laws.

Since FTC chairman Lena Khan wants to investigate as many businesses as possible, it is likely

she will respond favorably to the senator's letter.

President Biden has also endorsed an investigation into the role foreign investors played in financing

Musk's Twitter purchase.

Biden may be concerned that Musk is not likely to ban tweets regarding Hunter Biden's business

deals.

Concerns that Musk would allow tweets containing information embarrassing or worse to the

Biden administration point to the real reason many Democratic politicians and progressive

writers and activists are attacking Musk.

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