Wilful indifference to one of the world’s most consequential oligarchs (yes, he’s an oligarch) is nothing to be proud of
Elon Musk’s actions since buying Twitter, now known as X, have been criticised by watchdog groups. Photograph: Patrick Pleul via AP/PAplatform in company and at least half the listeners will adopt a talk-to-the-hand posture. At a recent gathering, one gent said he didn’t care because he didn’t “partake” ; another boasted that he drove a Tesla so that was that. Those gents wield some influence in certain circles.
The world is reaping the whirlwind of his disbandment of the advisory council on trust and safety issues and his dismissal of the scores of employees who had the job of addressing those problems. The blue ticks identifying people deemed of public interest by pre-Musk Twitter were removed, as were the verified checks for established media accounts, as were the labels that identified government- or state-affiliated accounts.
Anti-Semitic tweets in English more than doubled after his takeover. Engagement with pro-Kremlin accounts grew by more than a third between January and June this year, according to a European Commission report. In the 90 days after the blue-tick change, engagement with posts from the English-language accounts of Russia, Iran and China soared by 70 per cent.
What is also true is that more people get their news via social media “gateways” than directly from news websites, according to aThat he has done his best to kill the links to credible media – the kind that spends money gathering news, corroborating it, contextualising it, editing it, lawyering it – by removing the headlines reveals more about his freedom to kill the truth than any search for it.
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