Twitter Inc owner Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, on Monday recommended that voters pick Republican candidates for the US Congress in Tuesday’s midterm election. “To independent-minded voters: Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the presidency is Democratic,” Musk said on Twitter. Since Musk’s takeover of Twitter, civil rights groups have criticised the Tesla CEO’s stance on content moderation over his absolutist free speech stance, which they expect to increase the volume of misinformation and hate sp…