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Collected Item: “What Musk's free-speech Twitter could unleash”

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What Musk's free-speech Twitter could unleash

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This is a news story from Axios by Ina Fried. This is about the ramifications that could happen with Elon Musk's Twitter buyout. The author is worried about both election and COVID misinformation becoming more common on Twitter again. Other things added to this list include: sharing of manipulated media, impersonating others, increase of spam content, hateful conduct, and forms of violence being allowed.

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social media, Twitter, Elon Musk, free speech, misinformation, government, ASU, HST580

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https://www.axios.com/musk-free-speech-twitter-unleash-272b2d7a-1691-43d4-a84e-9d23c5fbcbb5.html

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Ina Fried

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2022-04-28
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