Twitter plays a ‘significant’ role in Canada’s democracy, and government must do more to regulate in face of Musk’s ‘roller-coaster,’ say observers

A researcher from an organization that teaches civic literacy says that changes to the verification system on Twitter are one of the 'most urgent' concerns.

Since concluding his $44-billion acquisition of Twitter on Oct. 27, Elon Musk's Twitter feed has been 'a roller-coaster' of new ideas and directions that he may take the company, say observers.Photograph by Daniel Oberhaus courtesy of Flickr

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BY IAN CAMPBELL

November 11, 2022

Twitter plays a “significant role in Canada's democracy,” and the tumultuous fallout stemming from Elon Musk’s recent $44-billion acquisition of the platform highlights “the failure of governments” to regulate these platforms, says Sonja Solomun of McGill University. Solomun, who serves a...

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