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    Of Course Twitter Loves Elon Musk

    Tesla’s billionaire CEO is revealing exactly what the social platform is truly optimized for—the amplification of powerful voices.
    by Vauhini Vara Aug 07, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: Joe Skipper / Reuters

    Back in 2010, when the most controversial question about Twitter was , the CEO at the time, Evan Williams, , “We’re just realizing the promise of the Internet—the democratizing of information. Anyone can share something with the world with little barrier, and that’s a really big deal.” This was an uncontroversial point at the time, one that would soon become a favored chestnut in Silicon Valley, after social-media executives grabbed on to the narrative that the Arab Spring, apparently organized partly online, demonstrated the revolutionary power of the technologies they had built. (The passage of time, and the failures

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