April 17, 2022 (The New Atlas) - Elon Musk’s bid to take over Twitter and reduce “content moderation policies” is much more complex and possibly dangerous than it appears.
Twitter and other US-based social media corporations aren’t just bad corporations with equally bad policies - they are an integral part of US state censorship, information warfare, and - most importantly - establishing dominance in the information space of other nations around the globe.
This power will not be given up without a serious fight.
References:
The Hill - How an Elon Musk-led Twitter could change social media:
Grayzone - Facebook hires ex-NATO press officer and social media censor Ben Nimmo as intel strategist:
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/09/facebook-nato-social-media-censor-ben-nimmo-intel/
Atlantic Council - Ben Nimmo:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/ben-nimmo/
Graphika - Facebook Case Study:
https://graphika.com/case_studies/disinformation-detection/
Reuters - U.S. State Department speaks to Twitter over Iran (2009):
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-election-twitter-usa-idUSWBT01137420090616
Alliance of Youth Movements Summit - 2008 (Archived):
New York Times - U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings (2011):
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/15aid.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&emc=eta1
BBC - Milk Tea Alliance: Twitter creates emoji for pro-democracy activists (2021):
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56676144
