27.10.2023 18:36 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

What we got right (and wrong) about Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter

Exactly one year has passed since Elon Musk, fresh off a months-long legal battle that forced him to buy the company, strolled into Twitter headquarters carrying a sink. At the time, we weren’t entirely sure what to expect. But there were no shortage of predictions — including from us at Engadget — about just how messy and chaotic Twitter might become under Musk’s leadership. I’ve spent the last week revisiting many of those stories, and I’ve been struck by how, for a famously erratic CEO, just how predictable many aspects of his takeover have been. Before the acquisition closed, Musk spent months talking, tweeting and texting about his plans for the platform. Many of those early statements, like promises to relax moderation rules and to create an edit button, have actually happened. But as is so often the case with Musk, even the most predictable of his decisions have played out in unexpected ways. Amnesty for Donald Trump and other banned accounts Of all of Musk’s p

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