Yep both of those are true. Musk did say he bought Twitter to be an arena for free speech, and that the Twitter account was suspended.

Archive.org links for both the links if you can’t read the full articles: https://web.archive.org/web/20220414204110/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/14/elon-musk-ted-talk/, and https://web.archive.org/web/20260829202851/https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/4634208/trump-portfolio-tracker-account-suspended/.

If you want to read a Canadian perspective on this, CBC has an article on this exact thing.

If I were him (which I’m not), I wouldn’t appear before any political panels after what they did to him the first thing. All the panellists want is sound bites to make him look bad.

There are multiple ways that I know of (depending on what works for you): Bypass Paywalls Clean (extension and an adblock filter), archive.today (see Wikipedia for the most accurate URL’s), sometimes the full article is available on archive.org, there’s also the option of searching for the article title in quotes and finding another site that has reposted the entire article (sometimes it’s MSN, and other times it’s a site you’ve never read of).

I just checked, TechLinked does still to do 3 videos a week.

They mention in the US they are affiliated with the US branch of Communications Workers of America (CWA). “Separately, the WWU-UK branch has affiliated with United Tech and Allied Workers (UTAW), a national branch of the Communication Workers Union (CWU).” You can see their FAQ for more details.