Musk's commitment to 'free speech absolutism' has always been caveated when inconvenient.
Musk doesn't believe in free speech. Like all oligarchs he wants to you to believe whatever narrative is most beneficial to him and to never contradict it.
He gleefully spreads misinformation if it suits his purpose. He's happy to be a hypocrite if that suits his purpose.
he deleted all followers of an account that was critical of the h1b program exploitation going on since the 90s.