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

Kind of hilarious, actually, but in the depressing way that most Twitter news is these days.

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.

I have thought for years about the way that Twitter research (in the aggregate) serves as a largely unintentional history of Twitter, but I’ve never thought to wonder what that specifically looks like right now.

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

One paper that I read and reread as I was starting to get into Twitter research was Anatoliy Gruzd, Barry Wellman, and Yuri Takhteyev’s “Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community,” published in a 2011 issue of American Behavioral Scientist. I thought of this paper again yesterday; more specifically, I thought about the anecdote that the article begins with:

Barry and Beverly Wellman moved to Toronto more than 40 years ago. Not being able to get a public school job at first, Beverly went to teach English-language subjects at a Jewish day school. She lived downtown and commuted to the suburbs. One day the principal asked her,

Free speech absolutism at its finest.

How a platform is managed has real consequences.

One of the Vice journalists currently reporting on the Tim Ballard allegations just followed my (now dormant) Twitter account, and I’m going to take that as validation of my research on far-right Mormonism.

Roth’s perspective is valuable here. Scary stuff.

What a wild story.

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.

This is ridiculous.