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Elon's Twitter

Like other strongmen, he's now accountable to no one

Robert Reich
Oct 29, 2022
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Years ago, pundits assumed the internet would open a new era of democracy, giving everyone access to the truth. But dictators like Putin and demagogues like Trump have demonstrated how naive that assumption was.

Trump had 88 million Twitter followers before Twitter took him off its platform, just two days after the attack on the Capitol, which he provoke…

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