MSNBC's Chris Hayes complained about Elon Musk's handling of Twitter in an guest essay for the New York Times, saying his 'worst fears' have been realized.
CIA analyst Bob Baer claimed on CNN that "Putin is going to be all over Twitter" thanks to billionaire owner Elon Musk’s policies for running the company.claimed that"in under a month" all of his"worst fears have been realized" in regard to how new Twitter owner Elon Musk has run his new social media platform.
Hayes also expressed worry that under Musk, the platform may"break down and stop working altogether."Hayes began his guest essay by describingas a"near-death experience," if not the end of it entirely. He wrote,"If Twitter survives — and I fervently hope it does — its near-death experience has revealed something fundamental about our online lives: the digital spaces of civic life, the ‘public town square’ as Mr.
He continued by praising Twitter prior to Musk as"an arena where something akin to the global conversation was taking place." He added,"it came closest to executing on the core vision of what the global town square could look like." Hayes then provided a blistering condemnation of Musk’s handling of the platform. He wrote,"In under a month, almost all of the worst fears have manifested." Listing them, he said,"He has solicitously courted some of the worst trolls, sent advertisers fleeing in droves and cut the staff down so radically that simple functions like two-factor authentication have at times stopped working and there’s a risk it will simply break down and stop working altogether.
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