LA TIMES: Under Musk’s Twitter Takeover, Who Will Protect Users?
As Color Of Change President Rashad Robinson writes in this op-ed alongside UCLA Professor Safiya Noble, Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter illustrates a common problem in our media landscape — monopoly control without accountability. Just as we need rules for TV and news media designed to protect people, we need rules for tech companies. “Ownership of communication outlets continues to be consolidated into the hands of a few, which has had an incredibly harmful effect on politics, education and the way we narrate and understand our shared societal challenges.” With Musk making Twitter private, “There is no question that abuses on a platform that has already struggled with racism and harassment will become even more difficult to rein in… A self-regulated company is a non-regulated company.”
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