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Mastodon Features That Twitter Should Steal (but Won’t)
Any platform that supports free speech should have a content warning system pretty much like the one Mastodon offers. I…
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No One on Twitter Is Safe From Elon Musk
Musk changed his tune this week after he alleged a “crazy stalker” followed a car carrying his young son. Questions…
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Trump’s Twitter Ban Was Unfair, but Not for the Reason You Think
In January 2021, after former US president Donald Trump tweeted in support of an insurrection on the Capitol, his account…
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Making Meta Look Smart
It was the first day of April 2022, and I was sitting in a law firm’s midtown Manhattan conference room…
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Ex-Twitter Employees Plan to ‘Bombard’ Company With Legal Claims
Just a month after Twitter’s new CEO, Elon Musk, oversaw massive staff layoffs, former Twitter employees have announced that they’re…
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The Twitter Files Revealed One Thing: Elon Musk Is Trapped
Moderating social media platforms is hard. Just ask the former Twitter employees whose decision to block a 2020 New York Post story about…
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How Chinese Netizens Swamped China’s Internet Controls
The tragedy came as frustrations with zero-Covid policies were already starting to spike. Violent confrontations had broken out between workers and…
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We’re in Denial About the True Cost of a Twitter Implosion
Think of how devastating it was to the anti-vax influencers Alex Berenson and Robert Malone to be kicked off Twitter.…
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Truth Social Is Rising as the Anti-Mastodon
Then there’s Mastodon’s code. As Truth Social was under development in 2021, the Software Freedom Conservancy accused it of violating a…
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Here’s Proof Hate Speech Is More Viral on Elon Musk’s Twitter
Elon Musk reactivated Donald Trump’s Twitter account last weekend, reversing a ban imposed in January 2021 after his posts were deemed…
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