The Numbers Are In: Elon Musk Has Been a Disaster for Twitter

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The Numbers Are In: Elon Musk Has Been a Disaster for Twitter
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Elon Musk's financial position has grown worse according to a Fidelity valuation Tuesday, which found Twitter to be worth just one third of what Musk originally paid for it.

“melting” servers and incessant audio glitches.)

In short, Musk wants Twitter to be everything for everyone, even as its core features—ones that allow users to post and read short bursts of text and consume real-time information—growWhere he has succeeded, though, is in turning Twitter into a hot spot for the far right.

On paper, these kinds of posts should be prohibited under Twitter’s hateful-content policies. But Musk laid off many of the employees responsible for content moderation months ago, letting enforcement go by the wayside. And Musk, of course, has personally done little to discourage racism on the platform. In the past few months alone, he has

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