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Single year of Elon Musk turned Twitter into a husk of its former self
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28/10/2023 03:51 PM | Click to read full article
It’s been one year to the day since Elon Musk completed his purchase of Twitter for $44 billion. Through a dizzying and haphazard barrage of changes, Musk has transformed a profitable company once regarded as the world’s go-to source for breaking news and political commentary into a widely ridiculed platform that’s fighting just to break even and crippled by debt; that’s struggling to manage spam and disinformation; that’s alienated some of its biggest advertisers and users.