"Twitter’s infrastructure has delivered a perpetually roiling crowd; to be on Twitter is to fight on Twitter, and often to fight about Twitter."

Today I reread something I wrote in April ab Twitter as a public square, which includes a brief history of Twitter's evolution on content moderation. Right-wing wingnut media freaked out over this one (breathless fanfic about "regime scribbler DiResta", "disinformation career girl attacks elon musk!") but yeah, it's held up...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/elon-musk-buy-twitter-free-speech/629571/