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It’s been one year since Elon Musk completed his purchase of Twitter for $44 billion and set the company, along with its employees and users, off on a whiplash-inducing series of twists and turns. What happened? What's next for the company now called X?

Algorithms have been blamed for dividing society. What if they could support social cohesion instead?

Since Elon Musk bought Twitter and took the company private, the news around the platform has been rife with verification chaos, API access shakeups, ban reversals and layoffs.

Irwin decided to resign after Musk publicly chastised moderation policies she introduced to protect transgender and gender-non-conforming users from misgendering.

In the early, pre-web days of the social Internet, decisions about the spaces people gathered in online were often made by members of the community.

Elon Musk isn’t happy about it.

 

X/Twitter owner Elon Musk slammed Wikipedia dysfunction on Monday, condemning the site for the biases of its hierarchy of elite editors, rejecting comparisons to his platform's Community Notes feature, which does not have different tiers of editors. Musk couldn't help trolling Wikipedia boss Jimmy Wales, responding with the site's regular plea for donations with an offer of $1 billion if it changes its name to "Dickipedia."

Why should a few companies – or a few billionaires – have the power to decide everything about online spaces that billions of people use?

Philippine Canadian Inquirer Let the community work it out: Throwback to early internet days could fix social media’s crisis of legitimacy World News