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Expect Twitter accounts of populists like former president Donald Trump to be given a second life (Photo: Marco Verch)

Elon Musk is already turning Twitter into MySpace

Will things go south with Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter? Most users who are today flying to Mastodon think the answer deserves a clear yes.

Yet, none of them has yet explained what will go wrong. So far, exodus calls are more moral posturing than political forecasting. Twitter quitters signal their refusal of Musk's conservative leanings, and a rejection of techno-capitalist economics.

To see what can go wrong in Musk's Twitter, w...

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Author Bio

Nicolas Petit is the author of Big Tech and the Digital Economy: The Moligopoly Scenario (Oxford University Press, 2019) and joint chair in competition law at the department of law at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. He is also invited professor at the College of Europe in Bruges.

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