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Ultimately, reining in social media is not a free speech issues. It’s about changing the poisoned incentives driving information distribution and how we communicate, while taking away means of tech billionaires to exert their power over us. The time to act is now.

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But, at its core, this is not just an X problem. The scandal around Musk’s platform places a spotlight on the broader ways major social media platforms are out of step with healthy discourse and communication in modern societies — democratic or otherwise. These platforms and the decisions of the billionaires who control them are amplifying existing tensions and accelerating the descent of societies into chaos, making it harder from them to step back from the ledge. This has nothing to do with free speech. It’s about changing the incentives driving how we communicate with one another and create, share, and interact with information. But also about reining in the power of tech oligarchs to sow discord for their own benefit.
January 23, 2026 at 9:29 PM