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Likewar and the Weird National Security Implications of Musk's Twitter Takeover
Angry Planet
Is This a Social Media Platform?
Twitter may be not as big as other platforms, but it's highly influential. But there's a second thing at play there, which is what happens as that platform moves from being a publicly held company to a privately held company. That means the individual owner can have a greater influence in ways that aren't going to be evident to the rest of the world because you don't have open board meeting stock reports all that. Another issue that moving from public to private for Twitter in particular is did he just accelerate this for his own platform by pushing kind of right wing leaning conspiracy theories? He has potentially accelerated it from sort of the clubhouse for everyone to maybe being a little bit more partisan.
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