Elon Musk Buying Twitter: Why It's a Bigger Battle Than You Think

April 17, 2022 (The New Atlas) - Elon Musk’s bid to take over Twitter and reduce “content moderation policies” is much more complex and possibly dangerous than it appears.

Twitter and other US-based social media corporations aren’t just bad corporations with equally bad policies – they are an integral part of US state censorship, information warfare, and – most importantly – establishing dominance in the information space of other nations around the globe.

This power will not be given up without a serious fight. 

References: 

The Hill – How an Elon Musk-led Twitter could change social media: 

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3269056-how-an-elon-musk-led-twitter-could-change-social-media/

Grayzone – Facebook hires ex-NATO press officer and social media censor Ben Nimmo as intel strategist: 

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/09/facebook-nato-social-media-censor-ben-nimmo-intel/

Atlantic Council – Ben Nimmo: 

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/ben-nimmo/

Graphika – Facebook Case Study: 

https://graphika.com/case_studies/disinformation-detection/

Reuters – U.S. State Department speaks to Twitter over Iran (2009): 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-election-twitter-usa-idUSWBT01137420090616

Alliance of Youth Movements Summit – 2008 (Archived): 

http://web.archive.org/web/20120311234911/https://allyoumov.3cdn.net/f734ac45131b2bbcdb_w6m6idptn.pdf

New York Times – U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings (2011):

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&emc=eta1

BBC – Milk Tea Alliance: Twitter creates emoji for pro-democracy activists (2021):

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56676144