Musk’s controlled release of Twitter files in the name of ‘freedom of speech’ obfuscates the real problem with Twitter.
Michael Kwet
Michael Kwet is a Visiting Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Johannesbur... g. He is the author of Digital colonialism: US empire and the new imperialism in the Global South, and hosts the Tech Empire podcast. His work has been published at Motherboard, Wired, BBC World News Radio and Counterpunch. He received his PhD in Sociology from Rhodes University, South Africa.
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