Editor's weekly digest: The impossibility of the online public square

Is it kind of funny to watch Elon Musk burn billions of dollars driving a popular social media company into the ground in a quixotic quest to build a better 'public square'?

I'd argue it is — if it wasn't equally sad that that money could have been spent on, I don't know, solving world hunger.

But that's not the point I want to make.

Musk's acquisition of Twitter — which, just to relativise, for an average global citizen ranks in importance somewhere between 'I need to buy t...

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