Elon Musk bought Twitter and immediately tried to reinvent it with the subtlety of a wrecking ball. Mass firings. Verification badges sold like trinkets. Trolls testing boundaries. Advertisers fleeing.
What was once a chaotic agora is now a demolition site. Musk promised free speech; what he delivered was free rein for the loudest, cruelest voices. Users who had already endured years of harassment saw the new era as confirmation: the platform is built for spectacle, not safety.
Twitter was never healthy. But under Musk it has become a pet project with global consequences. The world’s political discourse is now a billionaire’s midlife crisis.