The Dangers of Twitter's Future

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He has a fundamental misunderstanding of why people go to social media. Verifications were not a missed opportunity to get revenue, he says. Twitter is going to be a hotbed of mis-indisinformation in the 2024 US election,. I'm betting on this new chunk of revolutions, hashtag revolutions that are sweeping across the region. And Baton Rouge, where all the sterling were shot by officers while pinned down last Tuesday, protesters there were confronted by a militarized police force on Twitter.

Elon Musk took over Twitter with the promise of promoting free speech and making the loss-making platform profitable again. But his critics say he’s destroying Twitter’s culture and driving it to bankruptcy. How much danger is the company really in? In the first episode in a new series of Tech Tonic, Elaine Moore, deputy editor of the FT’s Lex column, asks whether Musk will save Twitter or destroy it.

In this episode we hear from Evan Henshaw-Plath, one of the original creators of Twitter; Rumman Chowdhury, Twitter’s former head of machine learning, ethics, transparency, and accountability who was laid off by Elon Musk; and FT tech reporter Hannah Murphy.

Presented by Elaine Moore. Produced by Edwin Lane and Josh Gabert-Doyon, Executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Sound design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco. Original music by Metaphor Music. The FT’s head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. Special thanks to Hannah Murphy

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