{"id":53314,"date":"2022-10-11T08:52:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T15:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53314"},"modified":"2022-10-11T09:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T16:53:21","slug":"critics-alarmed-over-twitter-troll-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53314","title":{"rendered":"Critics alarmed over \u2018Twitter troll\u2019 takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s looming Twitter takeover\u00a0has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29328427.27110\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS8zNjc4NjUwLWNyaXRpY3Mtc291bmQtYWxhcm0tb3Zlci10d2l0dGVyLXRyb2xsLWVsb24tbXVza3MtY29tcGFueS10YWtlb3Zlci8_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5YjgmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1TYWlsdGhydSZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0xMC4xMC4yMiUyMEVNJTIwVGhlJTIwSGlsbCUyMC0lMjBIaWxsaWNvbiUyMFZhbGxleQ\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB05eef552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29328427.27110\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS8zNjc4NjUwLWNyaXRpY3Mtc291bmQtYWxhcm0tb3Zlci10d2l0dGVyLXRyb2xsLWVsb24tbXVza3MtY29tcGFueS10YWtlb3Zlci8_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5YjgmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1TYWlsdGhydSZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0xMC4xMC4yMiUyMEVNJTIwVGhlJTIwSGlsbCUyMC0lMjBIaWxsaWNvbiUyMFZhbGxleQ\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB05eef552&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1665525082281000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1pfoFVuKD70HvGS8eDqHe3\">triggered warnings<\/a>\u00a0on the left that\u00a0under his leadership\u00a0the platform will be flooded with hate speech and misinformation, especially ahead of\u00a0coming\u00a0election cycles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Musk hasn\u2019t provided a detailed picture of the version of Twitter he plans to run, but he\u2019s foreshadowed creating a platform focused on what he deems \u201cfree speech,\u201d meaning there would be less content moderation and a strong likelihood of former President Trump regaining access to his once-favored account.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the deal barreling ahead after Musk agreed to follow through on\u00a0his\u00a0purchase\u00a0of the company\u00a0and a judge halted\u00a0the trial in\u00a0Twitter\u2019s\u00a0lawsuit\u00a0against the billionaire, those changes could be fast approaching \u2014 and they have critics worried.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cEven if you don\u2019t use Twitter, this is going to affect you,\u201d Angelo Carusone, president of the left-leaning watchdog group Media Matters, told The Hill.<\/li>\n<li>He likened\u00a0the potential Musk acquisition of Twitter\u00a0to when Fox News launched more than two decades ago, offering an alternative to balance what its founders viewed as a media landscape that catered to liberals.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThat\u2019s what Fox became \u2014 and it had a profound distorting effect on the news media, on our society. And if you look at what Musk says about social media, we are in the same moment, just updated 30 years later,\u201d Carusone said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>THE TRUMP QUESTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s renewed interest in purchasing Twitter is again raising the prospect that its most famously banned user\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29328427.27110\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9ob21lbmV3cy9hZG1pbmlzdHJhdGlvbi8zNjc4NDM5LW5ldy1saWZlLWZvci1tdXNrLXR3aXR0ZXItZGVhbC1yYWlzZXMtdGhlLXRydW1wLXF1ZXN0aW9uLz9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPVNhaWx0aHJ1JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPTEwLjEwLjIyJTIwRU0lMjBUaGUlMjBIaWxsJTIwLSUyMEhpbGxpY29uJTIwVmFsbGV5\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBfe091752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29328427.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&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1665525082281000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3bxXuLjHWPOWcl4gAu7jKd\">could be allowed<\/a>\u00a0back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former President Trump has been adamant that he will stick with Truth Social, the fledgling social media platform he helped found, regardless of whether he is welcomed back to Twitter. But experts and Trump allies believe the allure of the massive Twitter audience would be too great to resist, putting his future on the popular platform front and center as the Musk deal shows new signs of life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s coming\u2026\u201d former Trump legal adviser Jenna Ellis tweeted this week, along with an edited video that showed Trump returning to Twitter with a tweet that read: \u201cYour favorite president is back!\u201d as Musk looked on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been banned from Twitter since January 2021 in the wake of his tweets around the violence at the Capitol, which followed months of spreading falsehoods about the 2020 election. YouTube and Facebook have both also kicked Trump off their sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s looming Twitter takeover\u00a0has\u00a0triggered warnings\u00a0on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53316,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53314\/revisions\/53316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}