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Getty; The Atlantic I Watched Elon Musk Kill Twitter’s Culture From the Inside
This bizarre episode in social-media history proves that it’s well past time for meaningful tech oversight.
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The Atlantic Elon Musk Can’t Solve Twitter’s ‘Shadowbanning’ Problem
For several years, social-media users have expressed anxiety about algorithmic suppression. Now they’re getting some unexpected clarity.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty Twitter Was the Ultimate Cancellation Machine
If the platform dies, how will people find quick justice?
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic The End of the Silicon Valley Myth
The companies that define our digital lives have hit a wall.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty Elon Musk’s Text Messages Explain Everything
A disastrous year for the tech industry, captured for eternity in a billionaire’s private exchanges
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty Why Is Elon Musk Lighting Billions of Dollars on Fire?
Twitter isn’t heading toward a happy financial equilibrium.
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The Atlantic; Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency / … This Is What It Looks Like When Twitter Falls Apart
Elon Musk hasn’t finished his drama yet.
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Sergei Bobylyov / Sputnik / AFP / Getty What Trump and Musk Don’t Get About Russia’s Nuclear Threats
Putin’s hollow rhetoric warrants no concessions from the West.
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John Shearer / Getty The Childish Drama of Elon Musk
Yet again, an important part of the public square is controlled by a narcissistic toddler.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty No One Wins in Elon Musk’s Battle With Journalists
The owner of Twitter and some of its most avid users are at war over the platform.
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Joshua Lott / Getty The Twitter Files Are a Missed Opportunity
No one really knows what Elon Musk’s company is doing to free speech.
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Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Elon Musk Is a Far-Right Activist
One tweet says it all.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Are Bait
He doesn’t actually want transparency on the social-media platform.
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Getty / The Atlantic How Elon Musk’s Buffoonery Misleads His Critics
What I learned while binge-watching social media’s hottest melodrama
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Bryan Anselm / Redux Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson Don’t Understand the First Amendment
Twitter is a private company—not the federal government.
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Getty; The Atlantic What Were Elon Musk’s Lenders Thinking?
That being in business with the richest man in history was a good bet. They could still be right.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Madness of Twitter
People just can’t stop tweeting about all the tweets they see.
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Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post / Getty The Era of ‘Stay and Fight’ Twitter Is Here
Now that Elon Musk is welcoming Donald Trump back to Twitter, some liberals feel they can’t leave the platform behind.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty Trump’s Terrifically Stupid Return to Twitter
Two wealthy and self-involved men are seeking the attention they crave.
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Andrew Harrer / Getty; The Atlantic The Harvard Business School Professor Who Isn’t Counting Elon Musk Out
Andy Wu makes the case that Twitter was in trouble long before the new CEO came aboard.
