Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, April 26. I'm Nyla Boudou. Here's

what you need to know today. The U.S. says Russia is failing in Ukraine. But first, today's

one big thing. The winners and losers of Elon's Twitter takeover.

Elon Musk is buying Twitter for $44 billion. The deal was announced Monday afternoon, 11 days

after his initial bid. And it puts one of the world's richest people atop the influential

social media platform. And raises tons of new questions about Twitter's future for users.

Here with more as Axios' cheap technology correspondent, Ena Fried. Hey, Ena.

Ena. As soon as the Axios alert about the deal happened, I got a text from a listener

asking, does this mean President Trump is going to be able to get back on Twitter?

Well, not immediately, because the Twitter management is still in charge. The deal won't close

until later this year. But I think that question is really emblematic of a series of questions

that everyone is asking. What does this mean for Twitter the site? Is it going to be different

than it is today? And depending on where you sit, that could be a very good thing or a very bad thing.

So what changes has Elon Musk talked about saying he wants to do?

So he's talked about things that are in his fields of interest. So more openness as far as

the algorithm. He's talked about open sourcing it. He's talked about more acceptance of cryptocurrency.

He's obviously big into that. But then most importantly, he's spoken about free speech. And

it's very interesting because people mean different things when they say free speech. And we're not

100% sure what Elon means and what it'll do. But there's a lot of concern that that means

unmotorated speech, which generally hasn't worked out very well on the internet.

And when you think about the idea of unmotorated speech,

what would this move mean for users of communities like people of color or LGBTQ plus people

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