Why social media has become tedious
The launch of Twitter rivals should feel exciting – but it no longer does.
ByElon Musk
Elon Musk is a businessman, chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, owner of Twitter, and has been estimated to be the world’s richest man. He was born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa, and after studying at University of Pennsylvania embarked on a career as an entrepreneur, co-founding Zip2, a software company that was bought for $300m in 1999.
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With Meta’s Twitter rival Threads comes yet another online profile to maintain. Exhaustion will ensue.
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The embarrassing rise of the “anti-woke” alpha male shows how a crisis of masculinity makes one seek to aggressively perform…
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Whoever wins, we lose
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The dark reality of Ron DeSantis’s disastrous campaign launch
It was embarrassing for the Florida governor and Elon Musk. It could be a tragedy for American democracy.
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Can Linda Yaccarino save Twitter?
However competent the new CEO is, the biggest obstacle in her efforts to turn Twitter around will be Elon Musk’s…
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Elon Musk and MrBeast are building sinister company towns
We should be extremely wary of the super-rich building “utopias” for their workers
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Twitter should charge us
Under Elon Musk, the platform is approaching pay up or shut up time.
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Farewell, blue tick
Strangely, I am still breathing without it.
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Elon Musk has laid bare the devil’s bargain we all make with the internet
It really is quite something to realise that you are, effectively, a website’s bait.
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If Elon Musk thinks running Twitter has been painful, he should try using it
The billionaire’s woe-is-me interview with the BBC is fooling no one.
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Twitter is dead
In the Elon Musk era, we have lost everything that once made this platform special.
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Elon Musk is building an Internet of Losers
The decision to remove “legacy” blue ticks misses the point of Twitter’s Verified system – while failing to stick it…
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The world can no longer afford for Twitter to be run so badly
Its outage this week was irksome for us – but a matter of life and death for Turks and Syrians.
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The business forecast for 2023: An inflation rollercoaster and Elon Musk’s Twitter break-up
Predictions for a bumpy year ahead from the New Statesman’s business editor.
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Elon Musk was never really the world’s richest man
The perverse maths of wealth meant the Tesla owner lost billions by selling shares that made up his net worth.
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The best New Statesman long reads of 2022
The stories and essays that had you (and us) gripped from start to finish this year.
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Twitter’s double standards under Elon Musk
The New Statesman has uncovered evidence that right-wing accounts are being treated differently.
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Key policy moments of 2022
Policymakers and experts on their policy highlight – or lowlight – of the year.
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How 2022 killed the myth of the tech genius
This year saw the great humbling of the Silicon Valley billionaire – from Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg.
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