Shortly after Musk acquired Twitter, #TwitterMigration began trending. But what are the alternatives?
Many have been concerned that Musk’s approach to moderation may fuel more hate speech on Twitter
If we wade through some of the early reactionary media punditry, we see Musk has paid far too much for a platform that has not yet fulfilled its business potential to investors, nor its social potential to users.users $8 for a blue tick, and firing half of Twitter’s staff.after he bought the platform: “The bird is freed”.
Before the purchase, one of his oft-tweeted criticisms of Twitter was that there were too many limits on “free speech”, and moderation would need to be reframed to unlock Twitter’s potential as a “de facto public town square”., but we’re yet to see any actual changes made to content moderation – let alone Musk’s utopian vision of a digital town square.
This isn’t a new idea. Meta has convened such an oversight board since 2018, made up of former political leaders, human rights activists, academics and journalists.
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