To Save Twitter, Elon Musk Should Fire Himself
Foreign Policy: Bhaskar Chakravorti
| Musk’s conflicts of interest make him too dangerous to run the global public sphere.
Here’s Proof Hate Speech Is More Viral on Elon Musk’s Twitter
Wired
| Elon Musk reactivated Donald Trump’s Twitter account last weekend, reversing a ban imposed in January 2021 after his posts were deemed to have incited violence at the US Capitol.
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Is the Digital Dollar Coming Soon?
TuftsNow | A Fletcher School expert explains how a central bank digital currency works and why the U.S. is considering developing one
Elon Musk’s Twitter Buyout Brought Back QAnon Believers, Report Says
CNET | Discussions about the Trump-related, false conspiracy theory have ramped back up.
Facing a Tide of Criticism, Elon Musk Is Tweeting Through It
The New York Times | The new owner of Twitter has embarked on a tweeting spree to push back, spar and justify his actions.
Twitter ‘laid off’ counter-electoral misinformation teams days before US midterms
The New Arab | Twitter’s mass layoffs included staff responsible for tracking and countering misinformation spread on the platform ahead of and during the US midterm elections.
Resistance to misinformation is weakening on Twitter, a report found.
The New York Times |
Researchers at Tufts expressed concern in a report about conspiracy theories on Twitter ahead of the midterms.
Elon Musk Puts His Own Politics on Display on Election Day
The New York TimesThe new owner of Twitter has urged his followers to vote Republican.
The Red Wave That Wasn’t: Biden said Wednesday that voters had proven that “democracy is who we are.”
The New York Magazine Biden said Wednesday that voters had proven that “democracy is who we are.”
New wrinkles in misinformation as midterms near: election skeptics at polling places, and on ballots; fake news in new languages; Elon Musk at Twitter’s helm
MarketWatch ‘The single galvanizing narrative is that the 2020 election was stolen,’ observes Tufts scholar in technological change and society