Just over a year ago – on April 14, 2022 – Elon Musk announced his intention to buy Twitter. With Musk now at the helm, here are four facts about how adult…
Twitter provides an important platform for science communicators, but many in the scientific community have expressed misgivings about remaining on the platform.
Since Elon Musk purchased Twitter in October, there has been no shortage of headlines about his antics and failures at the company. The company has lost nearly 50% of its monthly ad revenue since Musk took over (according to a previous Media Matters analysis), as advertisers are reportedly concerned about his behavior and the direction of the platform under his leadership. As Media Matters previously documented, the first two months of Musk’s leadership were plagued by chaos; he fired 50% of Twitter’s workforce, disbanded the Trust and Safety Council, and removed (and then reinstated) the accounts of journalists he accused of “doxxing” him. This chaos has continued in 2023, as Musk has personally interacted with QAnon influencers while his leadership has allowed right-wing accounts to regain a foothold on the platform and wage harmful misinformation campaigns across the site. The misguided “free speech” crusade that has defined Musk’s approach to Twitter has also
Twitter, the company, has merged itself with a new parent company called X Corp under its new CEO Elon Musk. This could be a big step toward the fabled X app.