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Speculate hill, reinstate ban twitter accounts including that of former u. S. President donald trump, although mosque says no decision has actually been made. Many right wing political figures says take over as a wind for free speech, while others are concerned. It may give rise to more hate speech on twitter. Well bring in our gas in a moment. But 1st, this report from kristen salumi in new york. Ilan mosque appeared at twitters california headquarters as his 44000000000. 00 takeover of the social media platform was beginning to sink in. Musk whod already changed his twitter title to chief twit confirmed the news in you guessed it, a tweet on friday morning. But its how free the bird will be, that is of most concern to users. His 1st move was to fire c e o par agog, or wall and top executives. Its no secret that the tesla c o thinks theres far too much censorship on twitter. There are concerns amongst people that i spoke to that people or accounts that have engaged in disinformation or misinformation or forms of harassment. Bullying may be allowed to stay on a platform in a way that they previously have not. Must previously said hed reinstate former president. Donald trump, who was banned in the wake of the january 6th riots. Trump responded on his own social media platform friday that he was happy. Twitter is quote, now insane hands. But musk announced plans to form a content Moderation Council saying no major content decision, or account reinstatement would happen before they met. And appealing to advertisers must tweeted that twitter obviously cannot become a free for all health scape, where anything can be said with no consequences. Must has pledged to follow the law of the land, but that is a concern. And authoritarian countries where twitter has historically resisted calls to take down Anti Government tweets. Some of those rules are going to need that. So people in certain countries you have a very lot down version all, all twitter walls, others and have a much more free wheeling experience is going to be a minefield or him to, to operate after 9 years as a publicly traded company on friday, twitter. Now under ellen mass val paperwork to have it shares removed from the stock mark by november 8th, the 1st official sab, to going private, while some employees were terminated on friday mosque has pushed back against reports that he planned to cut 75 percent of staff. But he has not denied that big changes are ahead resources. Kristin, silly me al jazeera new york, or martha says he wants to reform twitter with fewer restrictions and create a digital town square. But in response to mosques, tweet that the bird is freed the e commission of the internal market here, the brit on tweeted back in europe, the bird will fly by our rules. Under the e used Digital Services act, Tech Companies are required to take down a legal material including hate, speech, abuse and incitement. Among the many reactions on twitter, somewhat concerned about the functionality of the site itself saying itll become a wasteland which will either make it more chaotic and addictive or unusable. And many tweeted about the possible return of former president donald trump. After he was banned for life, Harry Littman says must could alter the american Political Landscape and make chaos and turmoil reign down. And many, far right. Political figures are welcoming mosques, takeover of twitter. Ah, lets bring in our panel now. We have in new york, suzanne nozzle, the c e o of pen america, a leading Human Rights Organization and author of death to speak, defending free speech for all. In college, we have mat navarro, a social Media Consultant and former Digital Communications adviser to the u. K. Government and also in new york, bradley task a co founder at tusk. Venture partners and then a junk professor at columbia. Business school will welcome to you or if i could start with suzanne. So what do you think will be editorial content and direction of twitter . Now change radically on the lawn mosque. Look, all eyes are on mosque. When he 1st began this transaction, he spoke very broadly about getting rid of all of the guard rails for content moderation on twitter. He seemed determined to correct what he saw as political bias, and he thought the way of doing that was to dismantle all the wrong. There are some signs as the deal has gone through that hes rethinking that he may be learning. He said to advertisers, look, this cant become a free for all hell escape. He realizes that the genuine danger, and that is what would happen if you did away with all the rules wholesale. He has now said hes going to set up a council, something like, perhaps the facebook Oversight Board that is going to bring together Diverse Voices to weigh in on content moderation decisions. So i think theres some glimmers of hope that its dawning on that this is far more complex than the bargain or, and that a one size sweeping away of all of the rules is not going to create the environment for rich discourse. That reports to want that instead it would be a kind of tower of babel. Were just Information Online harassment, beatrice bits, we all would rate or i interesting mat, do you think then the concerns about becoming a haven for far right extremism hate speech and that this information that she was talking about . Do you think thats now maybe not much of a concern or not too much of a concern as it was a few months ago . Think anything of those little musket balls taking it with a pinch of salt because the man changed his mind. The weather is that he said he wanted to return a few months ago. I already started to change the 1st few days of his transactions going through. So i think we need to wait and see, but i do think there twitter is known to have issues with like many social media sites with harassment and bullying abuse. And i dont think thats going to change any time soon. I think that some of the suggestions that you know must makes. I think that the complexity of it and the impact it will have, i think hes underestimating and if you look to. So i spoke paula and to social trumps or platform and rumble these on places that are a very profitable be much fun to be around and see to stick around a great deal of time with a large number of people. Ready so i think, you know, no one wants to hang around and i certainly know a large group of people are the size it has to do with all its platforms. So i think hes got his work out. Its going to be one of the biggest business challenges hes taken on here. All right, talking about business challenges. Maybe a good point to read this tweet by guy vo, huffstutter. Hes a member of the european pollen and he tweeted, so one man at ellen mosque now owns the biggest debate in the world. Bradley, should people be worried about the influence of the wealthy . The super rich in this critical industry. Perhaps for Different Reasons than weve been discussing so far on the weather, twitter will become a house. I would argue it already. And regardless of what must try to do positive or negative, hes not no impact that much. Its going to come down to, at least in the us, new regulations that force change. But overall, it seems to me that maybe one have a reason why must be doing that. We havent really looked at so far. Busy is there is no person on the planet that benefits more from hype around retail investing, but you, on las castle is worth 721000000000. 00 market flows yesterday. The real value is probably 110th that and the rest of the picture, dustin high. But he is better than anyone else. And the machine that creates the most picture of the most high is where so both for past one now and space facts from that goes public neural link in all these situations. If he can control the mechanism to keep our officially boosting the price of the shares, that may be why it makes more sense for him. So there is a big business incentive. Susanne, how can one ensure that there wont be an unnecessary, shall we say overlapping of motives for how social media work and in this kind of case, you know, its difficult. I mean, these are private companies. Theyre not regulated today. The idea that theyll be regulated in real time here in the United States. I think it is unfortunately pretty park patch. Theres some regulations i would support. Theres some regulatory proposals that i think go to bar. But the fact is, we have been politically hands strong, even though theres no sensible consensus across democrats and republicans that something needs to be done about the big tack. The minute you get down to specific proposals, there are deadlocks, and there has been no move. And the european union, as you touched on, is moving forward in a experimental way with putting obligations on the companies to moderate content to take down hateful speech. And this information and those obligations are serious. They bear significant fine. Now when it comes to musk stability, to promote his own business interest on the platform that may not be swept up european regulation, he may be quite free to do that. And so i think that is something we have to monitor the minute you have a Public Square of this size and scope, that is the demand for so much of our political discourse in the hands of one man. Hes got saudi investors who are number 2 on the list now in terms of the most powerful backers of twitter. And so i think there are serious political implications. There is going to be a National Security review of the transaction. Although i think the consensus is that it does really pose the issues because most as an american interesting while mat mosque says hes going to form a content, Moderation Council. Will that be enough . Well, weve seen it have some, some levels of success with facebook equivalent. The Oversight Board, but even then thats not without people. Im having a lot of criticism of the panel in terms of what i k able to do capable of doing in terms of the scale of the, the operation for a big social media platform. And it still doesnt get rid of the, the problems or different regulations in different countries. People from different sides of the political spectrum, tv that one size im being heard and seen on the platform, the other. I think theyre all of these problems are going to continue to exist and theres nothing that must the i can see has got to can do. Its going to change that. And i think although hes been really successful with all of the other businesses, hes had in terms of space x and has learned things. You know, they are very different businesses in terms of the, the mechanics of them. And the fact that it doesnt have this big Human Element in the middle of it, everyone has an opinion on. So i think that thats going to be really challenging. And, and i think you come back to talking about regulation. My maker is good to see that you and you can are moving forward with some levels of regulation, but those are not in the u. K. Are you seeing that progress being made without people . And so, fighting over whether actually now its just a grab bag of all sorts of ideas and if shes overreaching in some areas and, and not to the ring and others. So its still a long way to go in terms of the regulation. But this is a guess on the big that hes going to have to tackle as well as things like what you do with countries like russia and, and other countries with more repressive regimes. When you look at it like that, im wondering, bradley is it now just a matter of time before we see mosque, self proclaimed free speech. Absolutism, run afoul of regulators. Are they on a collision walls . Well, at least not in the us because right now we really dont have any regulation. So whether musk as well intentioned or not, his counsel moderation was broke. Has it at facebook or anything else, fun or mentally cant work because the Business Model requires the opposite. Twitter or facebook, any platform makes their money through advertising. Advertising rates are based on the number of eyeballs, the number of flex and whether we like it or not, toxic content, negative content drives flex significantly, more than positive content. So no matter how they want to try to moderate it to be good, it directly interferes with their economic incentives. The whole model, bradley is then going to be more content of controversial, potentially mation and extreme speech. Absolutely. Unless we do something about it right to you and propose that its come up in the us, which is right now, the platforms are not legally liable for content posted by use. As a result, i can to fame all of you all i want, you could come after me for damages, but i dont have that much to recover. But you cant go after twitter can go after facebook go out, protect up. Once that changes, if that changes and the platform become legally liable for everything to get posted and if they dont deal with it properly, they stand to lose billions of dollars in legal judgments. Then all of a sudden youll see real change, but just relying on the good intentions of the company, or quite frankly, the Group Pensions and ability of the government, the regulators that could be academics. None of that district mass. Is it a did . Thats the situation in the us, and im wondering its a different situation in other places. The Digital Services act is that actually tightening the rules and making social media platforms are going to make them, i think in 2024 to make them. Busy responsible for the content for hate speech, incitement, terrorism, child sex abuse and so on. Its quite amazing that were still sat here in the year that we are in 2022 and were only now just getting the so beginnings of regulation for these platforms. I think by anyones kind of standards and of looking at whats going on in the last 10 years. And social media is clearly got some questions to answer in terms of its negative impacts. But here we are, we, weve got something on the way and the u. K is going to approach to uses some more broadly similar is slightly further ahead in terms of where they are in terms of getting it installed. But its still the big question with the u. K. For example. And one of the things is about having a legal but harmful content in terms of things are subjective in terms of where should they be . Should they be down . And these questions are never, youre talking about re, to your, to about your case Online Safety bill. Right . So thats a big question about how you, who defines what is harmful, even if its not legal. It is an end and that thats one debate thats raging, that its actually been delayed in the last week in terms of getting passed through the house to get it to finally put into law. But theres also questions around like age and age of protection for kids. The children are still able to sign up to these platforms. And then if you actually put restrictions on platforms like people to provide id for them, then it can cause problems in other areas. So use kind of like spinning plates and turning one key in another lock closes and it is the most complex kind of business to, to enter into. And, and its not that this legislation is going to change things dramatically, but it will finally put some liability on the companies. And recently in the u. K, weve had the case of Molly Russell who, im sorry, so current life and, and in that case it was deemed from the, the coroners report that social media played a large part in that things need to change. But