On Friday, Twitter announced that the company will comply with some takedown requests. Zoe: This isn't the first time that Twitter has blocked links to specific content at the behest of the Turkish government. But I think it's pretty significant because under Elon Musk, Twitter now has other reasons outside of this kind of narrow legal angle," she says. "If he can do favors for autocrats that he needs to do business with, he will"
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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