Study: Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter resulted in mass exit of academics
- by The College Fix
- Oct 22, 2024
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IHE notes the study “reflects what some academics” had said at the time — that they’d leave Twitter as a “protest” and move to another platform.
The College Fix reported on some of those reactions. For example, Missouri State University’s Brian Ott wrote in the New York Times that Trump’s return to Twitter/X would lead to more “degrading and dehumanizing discourse,” “misinformation and disinformation,” and possibly even violence.
Goucher College Media Studies professor David Zurawik told a CNN panel “we are headed to hell” if Musk took over Twitter: “This is dangerous. We can’t think anymore in this country.”
Zurawik added the U.S. should “look to” Western Europe for how to regulate the platform.
UC Berkeley’s Robert Reich, a former Clinton administration official, said Musk’s view of a more open Twitter was “dangerous rubbish” and was “the dream of every dictator, strongman, demagogue and modern-day robber baron on Earth.”
Kara Alaimo of Hofstra University claimed Musk allowing “harmful forms” of speech would lead to the “silencing” of many users.
NYU’s Elizabeth Spiers alleged a freer Twitter “likely” would affect minorities more negatively than “white men like Mr. Musk.”
The University of Queensland’s Katharine Gelber said Musk’s claim that he was buying Twitter for more free speech was “just a fallacy […] it’s just wrong.”
And Vanderbilt law professor Rebecca Allensworth claimed Musk has “idiosyncratic views” about free expression, and called his Twitter purchase “troubling.”
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