Analysts warn that new owner of social media platform could repeat the mistakes of a decade ago, when unmoderated posts led to a 'cesspool' and advertisers fled
The big question now is how far Musk, who describes himself as a “free-speech absolutist,” wants to ratchet back these systems and whether users and advertisers will stick around if he does.
Under his ownership, Twitter could unwind steps taken in recent years to make the platform more palatable for its most vulnerable users, typically women, the LGBTQ community and people of
Tesla CEO Elon Musk stands to be the next owner of Twitter, having pledged roughly US$44 billion to buy the social platform and take it private. Assuming that happens, next up on his agenda will be planning how to fulfill his promises to develop new Twitter features, open its algorithm to public inspection and defeat spambots on the service that mimic real users.
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