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Ben Werdmuller
Ben Werdmuller

Apr 16

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Elon, Twitter, and the future of social media

There’s no world where nationalists get what they want.

While I don’t think the guy who runs racist factories is necessarily the right person to buy a prominent social media company in order to “save democracy”, he’s right about one thing: if Twitter is to truly be a public square, the algorithm needs to be open sourced.

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