Elon Musk Might Make It Worse, but Twitter Was Already Bad - Jacobin magazine

Many fear that Twitter under Elon Musk will fall to bigots and harassers. Maybe. But instead of arguing over who should be kicked off Twitter, we should ask what it’s designed to do to those who stay on it.

To hear the liberal chattering classes tell it over the past week, Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter isn’t just bad news it’s apocalyptic. “A Musk takeover could genuinely be a significant step toward… [+6255 chars]

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