Handing him control of Twitter would be like handing a toddler a loaded gun, except most guns have more reliable safety features in place and toddlers have the capacity for growth. He’s what would happen if Tom Hanks’ character from Big was an internet troll and the movie ended with him fathering an incomprehensibly-named child with Elizabeth Perkins. Musk’s online persona is so overwhelmingly bizarre it’s easy to forget that he’s a 50-year-old emerald mine heir and owner of two Fortune 500 companies. Yet this week it was revealed that Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for more than $41 billion, a proposal the social media giant promised to “carefully review.” If reading that made your entire body clench then good, that means your brain hasn’t been replaced with a. And unfortunately, it might be about to get even worse. The influx of power players and the internet’s increasing ubiquity over the past decade have had the effect of mainstreaming some of that online toxicity, and putting its power in fewer and less stable hands.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |