Elon Musk has emerged from his battle to take over of Twitter to face an even more daunting task: trying to fix the social media platform he claims to love
Michael Broderick: ‘You can’t turn the switch on overnight and hope there are going to be houses coming out’
He will also toss out permanent bans, telling the Financial Times in an interview in May that he would allow Mr Trump back on the platform after he was booted off in the wake of the January 6th attack on the US Capitol in 2021.Casey Mattox, senior fellow at the Charles Koch Institute, is among those who welcome a Musk takeover, arguing that he is likely to move Twitter to a fairer, less “centralised system” for moderating content, towards user-determined content moderation.
Others question whether Mr Musk could be susceptible to pressure from foreign powers, particularly given his recent public positions on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, calling publicly for a negotiated settlement to end the war in the country, and the praise he received from Beijing for comments on Taiwan.
He suggested that he would not appoint any C-suite management positions at all, writing that he would personally “oversee software development”. Mr Musk is also likely to gut Twitter’s relaxed remote working culture in favour of the long-hours, in-office workplaces that he is known to run at his other companies, which could lead to clashes with staff.
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