If this were to actually happen I would consider it bad news for independent journalism and dangerous for some political viewpoints, even in the United States. Google already owns one of the largest social media platforms: YouTube. Both Twitter and YouTube have pretty large political significance and being owned by the same company could be an issue. Especially as we have seen some persons lose their verification badges (on both YouTube and Twitter) for allegedly being on the wrong side of the political spectrum. The idea of this makes me uneasy.