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The Twitter social media app showing Elon Musk running on a mobile phone
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ELON MUSK, who claims to be the world’s richest man (and also probably the most indebted one), has bought the social media giant Twitter.
In doing so, he has sacked, often illegally, thousands of Twitter employees, and raised the question of whether it will continue at all.
As often with capitalism, appearance and reality differ. Twitter is a free-to-use platform for anyone to raise and discuss more or less anything, with limited constraints. That means it has numbers of racists and fascists using it, but also significant use by those from marginalised areas of society that the mainstream media reliably ignores.
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