The power of policy-posting
The American XL Bully would never have been banned without Twitter.
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Elon Musk owns Donald Trump now
The former president has returned to a platform that is little more than a circus.
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Losing Twitter’s block function would be a disaster
Elon Musk’s number-one goal is to make “X” the home of “free speech”, a concept he wrongly equates to harmful…
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Elon Musk is trying to silence his critics
X is threatening to sue an anti-hate group – the consequences could be catastrophic.
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The risible origin story of “X”
Elon Musk tried to rebrand a company “X” before – and lost his job.
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Why Elon Musk killed the Twitter bird
The tech billionaire wants “X” to become the centre of the internet.
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Twitter is breaking our politics
Fight a culture war too long, and you can no longer see when you’ve gone round the bend.
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Big Tech can’t erase politics from social media
To become a permanent alternative to Twitter, Threads will need to embrace politics.
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Why social media has become tedious
The launch of Twitter rivals should feel exciting – but it no longer does.
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We are heading for social media burnout
With Meta’s Twitter rival Threads comes yet another online profile to maintain. Exhaustion will ensue.
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“There are thousands of Andrew Tates out there”: The battle against online extremism
Counterextremism expert Milo Comerford on what Isis can teach us about the spread of radical misogyny.
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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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Is Substack the future of media?
Elon Musk’s ruin of Twitter has been a boon for the newsletter platform, which is reshaping the market for the…
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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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What does the end of Twitter mean for news media?
Without Twitter, the future of news on social media looks even more bleak.
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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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