OPINION: San Francisco is often a punching bag for right-wing vitriol on Twitter and elsewhere. Elon Musks' impending purchase of the social media site doesn't bode well for The City.
Elon Musk speaks to reporters at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2018. Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is facing large amounts of scrutiny after agreeing to purchase Twitter earlier this week for $44 billion. is on the social network he’s trying to buy, saying politically divisive things, and suddenly it feels a lot like 2016.“Unlike Trump, he’s a real billionaire. He’s got real money he can throw around, as we’re seeing.
“Musk’s Twitter activity constitutes a novel tool for corporate engagement mobilization and polarization,” Kirsch writes in a working copy of the research being presented at a conference in June. “While Musk’s deft use of Twitter delighted and engaged the fanboys, the techniques employed also mobilized a subset of Twitter users to challenge and oppose Musk, leading to polarization.”
Twitter, and one might argue many parts of America, have worked to address hate speech and other forms of polarization since former President
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