Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) said they have stopped posting content on their official Twitter account, becoming the second major news outlet — after National Public Radio (NPR) — to ditch the popular social media platform.
Musk’s reason for buying Twitter is to break it so that liberals can’t use it to organize and rally against the GOP and the wealthy. I have elaborated elsewhere.
This is all perfectly satisfactory to him, and to his pals in the GOP.
Musk would prefer to turn Twitter into a mirror of TruthSocial, but failing that, a smouldering crater will do.
In a recent interview, Musk said he’s open to selling Twitter. My dream is that an organization such as NPR or PBS could purchase Twitter and it could become a publicly-funded corporate entity, established for the common good. Many of the problems Twitter has experienced with disinformation might be solved that way.
Yeah - they don’t have that kind of money and that’s not anywhere close to their mission. Most likely scenario IMO is a number for former and possibly current Twitter employees find the investors to create another version that simply doesn’t have an Elon Musk.
They could change Twitter’s mission (“a public conversation about events of the day”, perhaps? …or "the digital commons"?). If Twitter remains in private hands there’s always the danger that the same problem (e.g. a sale to a megalomaniacal person, Wild West approach to increase revenue) could crop up again. Musk isn’t the only problem. The need for revenue inevitably creates a situation where bad behavior is allowed. …and that can devolve into a security threat or at minimum, a serious threat to democracy.
Given Musk’s whining, it’s clear he regrets the purchase. What if there were a group of wealthy (sane) investors who put together an amount sufficient to purchase Twitter and then turned it over to PBS or NPR, or some government entity who could create a public-corporation version, created for the common good?