Kara Swisher said she worries about Twitter’s security if Elon Musk takes over the app in what Swisher calls a “s—ty deal.”
“I don’t trust them to do a good job at security as before,”The veteran journalist stated at The Makers Conference, Dana Point, California that she would be protecting her data in the event that the app does not protect it. She also pointed out that Musk paid $30 billion more for the $44 Billion deal, which is an indication of his adequacy. “incompetence”The platform will be managed by the company, noting that the deal was struck in a “brofest of idiocy.”
Swisher also criticized the increasing importance of Musk and other business owners influencing social policy through control over social media platforms. “It’s not that they shouldn’t say what they want,”She said that their business and tech knowledge does not make them experts in social impact. “They think because they’re good at one thing, it transfers and actually impact things.”
The same can be said for Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West who recently announced he plans to acquire conservative social media Parler — who Swisher said she will not interview, and encouraged other media outlets to stop giving the artist a platform to voice his antisemitic beliefs.
Swisher said that she also imagined a conversation between Musk, Ye, and that she could hear Musk say it. “Hey dude, stop saying you’re gonna kill Jewish people, not cool.”
Swisher says that given the possibility of Musk controlling Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg continuing to run Instagram/Facebook, Swisher believes people to the right, left and middle will be able to control the future. “exhausted”With conversations about democracy online.
“The noise has taken over and everyone else is quiet about what’s happening,”The tech reporter stated. “So, in this particular situation, people with an ability to be screaming like Marjorie Taylor Greene … and others get to be more important than they are, and then it … weaponizes and amplifies their hate.”
