Betteridge's Law of Headlines: "Any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered 'No.'"

Elon can't do what he wants to do with the platform (i.e. let hate speech have equal footing with everything else), because laws exist, and no matter how rich he is, he must follow them.

80% of his users are in the EU, and they have very strict hate speech and defamation laws. Besides the bills that keep piling up and the lawsuits he's about to face over not paying severance to those who left, he will eventually have to face European governments' orders.

Couple that with the fact that he's shown a lot of people just how much of a turbo-bigot he is, and he's never going to attract the same number of people Twitter had before. The tricks he used to make his other companies work won't work here (and evidence indicates his success was probably somebody else's ideas that he stole).