WASHINGTON — For a platform that once only allowed sentences as long as this one, the teeter-totter fate of Twitter sure is consuming a lot of oxygen.
And new owner Elon Musk is rapidly earning a reputation to rival that of Twitter’s most infamous bomb-thrower: former president Donald Trump.
Musk, who had said he would establish a “content moderation council” that would handle issues such as standards and reinstating banned accounts, appeared to have abandoned that strategy over the weekend. “To all of those who have asked,” Trump’s last tweet reads, “I will not be going to the inauguration on Jan. 20.”
“I think we are seeing a sickness here that may be even worse in some respects than what we’ve seen over the last several years,” tweeted longtime Trump critic George Conway, whose wife Kellyanne is a former adviser to the ex-president.Conway has since migrated to a fledgling replacement, Post.news, as have a host of some of Twitter’s most prolific users, many of them journalists, academics and political activists.
“As it transforms into something far more toxic than what it has been, there will be some people — and we know this from the history of social media so far — who will be victimized by that, who will get caught up, who will get radicalized,” Napoli said.
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