In Bending The World To His Will, Elon Musk Has Destroyed Completely Twitter and Democracy
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Everything is coming apart.
And what’s interesting about this perspective is that you don’t need to read some dystopian fiction to gain understanding; it is staring at you in the face.
And at the heart of this problem is social media.
Once before, the leading social media platforms were seen as a force for good, helping folks reconnect with friends and then politicians jumped on this new phenomenon with Howard Dean and Barack Obama harnessing its power in appealing directly to voters.
But it didn’t take too long for things to sour and 2016 was the greatest case in point with Donald Trump benefiting from the brilliant work done by the Russian cyber specialists and Cambridge analytica.
By the time Christchurch shooting of Muslims in New Zealand took place, it was clear to everyone that the owners of these platforms had to do better in taking on the far right and Twitter did more than the rest in ensuring that racists and fascists had little oxygen.
But that was Twitter during the days of Jack Dorsey.
Ev Williams’s nemesis took no prisoners and this was applicable across board with Donald Trump getting banned…