"Free Word Absolutist"

The future owner of Twitter describes himself as a defender of freedom of speech and an opponent of rigid regulations defining areas allowed and prohibited in social media. He presented his position, among others, on Twitter, not only in connection with its purchase - he had already talked many times about the digital space for freedom of speech and ideas.

In the opinion of the former Reddit boss, censorship on social media platforms is a must. And it is not about specific topics or political views, but about the consequences that the spread of ideas can bring. "They can be really powerful and dangerous," concludes Wong. - If you run a social platform, you will be forced to censor it. Not by governments or officials, but by the dynamics of the Internet, "he writes. In his opinion, this was the motivation behind the blocking of Donald Trump's Twitter account.

Until 2016, social media operated in the gray area. Initially, they were communication tools, not tools for shaping public opinion. The fact that today they started to play the role of media was noticed quite late, and only then there were attempts to regulate - anyway, this process has not ended to this day, despite the fact that certain barriers are being put up.?

Musk's definition of freedom of speech is simple. - If someone you don't like can say something you don't like, then you are dealing with freedom of speech. It's bloody annoying, but this is a healthy situation, he explained. Earlier, he also explained his thoughts on Twitter: "The rules of social media are good when 10 percent of the most extreme users on the left and right are just as unhappy "

Soon, of course, there was an opposition voice in the mainstream media from the ruling elite, not to mention the opposition voice from the European Commission, to regulate everything from cucumber curvature to freedom of speech. Europe doesn't have one of its social platforms, as twiter, so "allows" Musk to do what he wants in the United States, but will gladly limit the right to freedom of speech of 500 million Europeans.

On the other side in the US political scene, the mood is quite similar. Senator Elizabeth Warren of the Democratic Party called the deal "dangerous to our democracy."White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki declined the media to comment directly on the deal. However, she said: "The president has long spoken of his concerns about the power of social media platforms, including Twitter and others, in spreading disinformation." It is not urprising that the Democrats remember well when they gave a concert in the Cambridge Analytica scandal that brought Trump to the presidency.

The truth is that information is currently not being verified as being credible and accurate. It is up to the media whether they are good or bad for the ruling elite. Polish "public" television (TVP) is here a model example of such a message.

Where most messages lead to moral panic. An exaggerated, media-enhanced social reaction to initially minor acts of deviation caused by the so-called "social enemies" or events such as pandemics. Such an overreaction of the media, police, politicians and government (and, it should be added - church representatives in religious societies) rather than deliberate elimination of social threat and anxiety, rather strengthens both the anxiety and the behavior that this anxiety triggered. The most important feature of any panic is that the actual threat posed by social enemies is always much smaller than the threat posed by the media, which people readily believe.

Those elites cannot find themselves in the new changing world of media. They're just trying to control the flow of information. It is easy to discover not only how the media deliberately evoke anxiety and outrage in society, but also to look at how conspiracy theories preached by various interest groups arise, or to reveal the behind-the-scenes actions of politicians who use this situation to churn political capital. Such research is a sociological adventure or like reading a detective story.

One of Musk's ideas on what should be changed to TT is to make his algorithm open source so that everyone can understand how it works and what topics it is promoting. The problem is that something that is supposed to protect against manipulation may turn out to be a tool that makes it easier - for an ordinary user the secrets of the algorithm will be of no use because they will not be able to use them anyway. Unlike those who want to reach TT users with their message.

There are more than enough examples of the evil use of the platform's mechanisms in recent mounts. There has been a disinformation campaign on Twitter since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Its mechanism was shown by Marc Owen Jones from British Durham University, who analyzed 250,000. Tweets about the Russian Tochka-U rocket attack on the train station in Kramatorsk full of refugees.

According to the Kremlin, the rocket was launched by the Ukrainians themselves. As Owen Jones watched the Russian version of events spread, it was found that accounts supporting the Kremlin's narrative tweeted in English, French, Italian, and Spanish. The propaganda was spread through anonymous accounts, but it was quickly picked up by real users - Russian embassies and politicians - expanding its reach and increasing its credibility. Analysts had found similar mechanisms earlier by looking at the pro-Russian hashtags. “Silting up the image is key. And interestingly, very easy to do, ”concluded Owen Jones.

Despite this, Billionaire did not agree to cut off the Russian media from the Starlink service, or fixed-line internet. The cut-off from the service was to make it more difficult for the Kremlin to spread disinformation about the war. But Musk is not only with one side because his company provided Ukraine with equipment for communication with Starlink in the first days of the conflict.

Sorry to be an absolutist when it comes to freedom of speech, "explained Elon

We receive information from many sources, and we may even say that we are overwhelmed and driven by the inflow of information. It's best not to rely on a single source and verify.? However, the most important thing is to just turn your thinking on...