Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

The Twitter changes are meant to deny Twitter to pro-democracy thinkers

Explore how recent Twitter changes aim to marginalize pro-democracy voices and the need for alternative platforms to regroup and connect.

The point was never to embolden fascists, it was to deplatform and fragment pro-democracy groups by denying Twitter as a central meeting-place. Oddly, we must keep using Twitter for now to stay connected. Meanwhile we need to be saving names for regrouping later on a new place.


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