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Elon agrees that Twitter needs to lessen its dependence on ads and move into subscriptions. 1. Table Stakes: Verify identity to clean up the conversation. 
2. Twitter+ Subscription: Paid tools for Creators to find, create, and share ideas. 
3. Twitter Create: Twitter should be the place to build subscription businesses... See more

The very fact that we are so concerned over a change in ownership of Twitter, and the impact that that may have on the digital public sphere, highlights the complete lack of regulatory oversight and the lack of any set of ethical norms that have been established for social media.

When Facebook or Twitter intervenes in this process it gets very complex because platforms are meant to be neutral. Editorializing The Algorithm becomes a question of first amendment rights. This makes Section 230 the most complex and consequential legislation of our time.

In his note, Abramov, who’s worked at the social network for four years, compared Facebook to a nuclear power plant. Facebook, unlike traditional media sources, can generate “social energy” at a scale never seen before, he said.

“But even getting small details wrong can lead to disastrous consequences,” he wrote. “Social media has enough power to da

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