A ten-point plan for taking the social media platform into new territory.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at the opening of Tesla’s ‘Gigafactory’ in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany on March 22 2022.
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Robert Kozinets, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and Jon Pfeiffer, Pepperdine University
A key piece of federal law, Section 230, has been credited with fostering the internet and allowing misinformation and hate speech to flourish. Here’s how it could be reformed.
The intersection of content management, misinformation, aggregated data about human behavior and crowdsourcing shows how fragile Twitter is and what would be lost with the platform’s demise.
Elon Musk, CEO of Twitter (for now).
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The US government regulates many industries, but social media companies don’t neatly fit existing regulatory templates. Systems that deliver energy may be the closest analog.
Elon Musk’s cold, impersonal approach to management treats employees like cogs in a machine instead of human beings.
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If Elon Musk’s aggressive management style proves to be successful for Twitter, it could result in other business leaders following suit and turning to unhealthy leadership practices.
Local people in Papua perform a traditional dance in the Sentani Lake Festival.
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Our new paper shows how Indonesian-language disinformation promoting government narratives on special autonomy has swamped Twitter since February 2021.
The restraints on COVID-19 misinformation on Twitter are off.
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Black Twitter has played a significant role in shaping the platform. In the wake of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, questions are being asked over the community’s future.
#blacktwitter helped mobilize social protests against police brutality across the country, like this one in New York City in July 2020.
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Black Twitter is often the preferred forum for candid and authentic Black-centered discussions on police brutality. Without it, holding police accountable may become even more difficult.
Radical change at Twitter shows how quickly strategies and values can shift in Big Tech. New Zealand needs to be less reliant on overseas solutions for its own digital infrastructure plans.
We often trust corporate logos and symbols without necessarily understanding the legal statutes that govern them.
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Over the past 16 years, Twitter has amassed an incredible amount of user-generated data which contains a detailed and extensive record of cultural moments. Musk’s takeover threatens these archives.
Daniel Angus, Queensland University of Technology and Timothy Graham, Queensland University of Technology
With the World Cup under way (bringing in more traffic) and more than 1,000 employees having reportedly resigned, concerns for the platform’s future are warranted.
Since its beginnings in 2006, Twitter has grown into one of the most important social networks in the world.
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