Zoe Kinsman: I think he's being disingenuous a lot of the time and you noticed that last night in the CNBC thing with the guy in Allen, Texas. And part of me feels like, is he just lying or does he actually believe it? She says if you take a look at his Twitter diet, many of these accounts are promoting this kind of conspiracy stuff. "I'm curious right now what you guys think, give it a grade on relevance and then on reliability"
Twitter rose to prominence as a global public square that helped enable the Arab Spring, but Elon Musk has changed all that. The platform is complying with governments more, and a murky algorithm and blue check jungle makes it feel less relevant and less reliable than ever before.
Nayeema and Kara break down how the fruit has fallen and where it may eventually land (Yahoo Mail, anyone?) with Zoë Schiffer, managing editor of Platformer, and Ryan Mac, The New York Times’s tech and accountability reporter, who was among those banned by Musk back in December.
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