How Congress Can Prevent Elon Musk from Turning Twitter Back Into an Unfettered Disinformation Machine

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Elon Musk seems intent on taking Twitter back to the not-at-all-distant era when social media was a free-for-all. A new E.U. law could provide a road map for how to regulate the social-media company.

In a statement on Monday, Musk said that he wanted “to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans.” These aren’t necessarily bad ideas. Allowing users to edit tweets and authenticating their identities could conceivably improve Twitter.

Based on some of his public statements, Musk seems intent on taking Twitter back to the not at all distant era when social media was a free-for-all. “I do think that we want to be just very reluctant to delete things,” he said, in an interview earlier this month. If Twitter does go in this direction, it could encounter pushback from corporate advertisers that don’t like being associated with disinformation, incitement, and controversy.

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