Musk's Twitter takeover highlights danger of owner-dominated social media platforms

A new study has suggested that the transformation of Twitter into X under Elon Musk marks the rise of a new, illiberal regime of governing social media platforms, which can be controlled by one person and used to push their own political agenda. Alongside researchers from the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and the Weizenbaum Institute, Dr. João C. Magalhães of The University of Manchester studied more than 1,500 events to track how the platform has changed since Musk acquired it.