What will Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter mean for 'free speech' on the platform?
Eric Risberg/AP In a surprise capitulation, the board of Twitter has announced it will support a takeover bid by Elon Musk, the world’s richest person.
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Eric Risberg/AP In a surprise capitulation, the board of Twitter has announced it will support a takeover bid by Elon Musk, the world’s richest person.
Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor of communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is co-author of “Platforms and Cultural Production,” which explores the processes and implications of platformization in cultural industries.
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With its 2.8 billion users and stance as the platform that stands for communities, Facebook is particularly important to disabled groups and the companies that serve them. And Instagram is the fashion worlds platform of choice.
Over the four years of the Trump presidency, social media platforms generally took a soft line in enforcing their policies against threats and misinformation, allowing most borderline speech to stand.