Elon Musk’s Twitter Will Be Chaos

After months of trying to change his mind, Musk now has a controlling interest in the social network. While official confirmation is still pending, Musk has already made a lot of changes. According to the Washington Post, the company's chief executive, Parag Agarwal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, general counsel Sean Edgett, and head of legal policy, trust and safety have all been fired. The executives did not issue a public statement about their departure.

Changes of this magnitude are not likely to be a one off. When it was announced that the company was going to be sold, Musk said he wanted to make it better by enhancing the product with new features.

Private text messages released through a lawsuit seeking to enforce the deal detail the ambitions of the company. The world may lose an imperfect but uniquely open online space due to many triggering concerns from people who use, study, or work atTwitter. If Musk goes through with his ideas, there will be big changes to the platform.

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Musk wants his version of Twitter to function as a "digital town square" where anyone is welcome to speak. That may sound admirable to many, but Musk has said that he is opposed to any censorship that goes far beyond the law, and that he wants to fix the strong left-wing bias that has been found on the platform.

This would translate to an ethos of just about anything. The bot watchers saw a flurry of new right-wing accounts after the acceptance of Musk's offer, and warned that people who had abandoned the site in anticipation of the Musk regime would return.

Experts in online moderation are worried that Musk will bring in a new era of trolly on the platform. A Musk-owned Twitter could be a disaster for women and marginalized communities who are already facing abuse and harassment on the platform.

At a Financial Times event in May, Musk said that he would reverse the ban on Donald Trump that was put in place after the insurrection. He stated in a private text message that he will be aiming to be as broadly inclusive as possible.