I was already fed up with Twitter before election season started. C’mon, Musk.

Gift link.

Musk ne s’intéresse à la liberté d’expression que quand il peut en profiter.

Is this the same feature Elon says will be sufficient for keeping Alex Jones in check?

This… this is even worse than just giving him an account back. Ugh.

Musk keeps digging his hole deeper and deeper.

What a joke.

Masnick’s frustration here is fun to read.

I’ve been waiting for Masnick’s response to this, and it’s good.

What the hell, Musk.

What a mess Musk has made Twitter into.

The headline obscures something important—that this is about research, access to data, and Terms of Service. Worrying stuff.

Looks like Masnick’s (and others’) predictions about Musk’s changes to Twitter are coming true. This isn’t what verification is for.

Free speech absolutism at its finest.

How a platform is managed has real consequences.

Roth’s perspective is valuable here. Scary stuff.

What a wild story.

Don’t love the idea of a fickle billionnaire having this much influence in world affairs.

What a mess this whole thing has been.

This feels like a page out of Gab’s playbook.

I’ve instinctively never liked t.co links, and this demonstrates what the problem with them are.

I think this is two weeks in a row that I’ve shared Casey Newton’s Platformer column, but that’s because it’s two weeks in a row he’s written something important.

Every semester, I give a guest lecture on internet research methods for an undergrad class in my unit. A few days after scheduling this semester’s lecture, I’ve realized it’s the first time I’m giving it after Musk borked Twitter as a data source.

Casey Newton has some good insight here.

This is ridiculous.

Yet another wild story in the wild history of Twitter.