{"id":5485,"date":"2022-04-26T01:37:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T23:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/26\/jokes-cheers-and-dire-warnings-twitter-reacts-to-musks-takeover\/"},"modified":"2022-04-26T01:37:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T23:37:16","slug":"jokes-cheers-and-dire-warnings-twitter-reacts-to-musks-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/26\/jokes-cheers-and-dire-warnings-twitter-reacts-to-musks-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokes, cheers and dire warnings: Twitter reacts to Musk\u2019s takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the self-declared \u2018free-speech absolutist\u2019 takes the reins, some activists and politicians fear for the platform\u2019s future<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s $44bn deal to buy Twitter has elicited cheers, concern, and lots of questions for the future, most of them issued on, well, Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>Musk, who has described himself as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/14\/how-free-speech-absolutist-elon-musk-would-transform-twitter\">free speech absolutist<\/a>\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/25\/twitter-elon-musk-buy-takeover-deal-tesla\">reached a deal<\/a> with the company on Monday in a takeover that will eventually give him control of the social network, which has more than 200 million users. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/25\/twitter-elon-musk-reaction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d0e99c753c0109b1b7a9a3e4f169f2f9dff01712\/0_200_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d4ae484904b3d8b1eb626eb2bb2105f1\" title=\"Jokes, cheers and dire warnings: Twitter reacts to Musk\u2019s takeover\" \/>As the self-declared \u2018free-speech absolutist\u2019 takes the reins, some activists and politicians fear for the platform\u2019s future<br \/>\nElon Musk\u2019s $44bn deal to buy Twitter has elicited cheers, concern, and lots of questions for the future, most of them issued on, well, Twitter.<br \/>\nMusk, who has described himself as a \u201cfree speech absolutist\u201d, reached a deal with the company on Monday in a takeover that will eventually give him control of the social network, which has more than 200 million users.  Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the self-declared \u2018free-speech absolutist\u2019 takes the reins, some activists and politicians fear for the platform\u2019s future Elon Musk\u2019s $44bn deal to buy Twitter has elicited cheers, concern, and lots of questions for the future, most of them issued on, well, Twitter. Musk, who has described himself as a \u201cfree speech absolutist\u201d, reached a deal &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/26\/jokes-cheers-and-dire-warnings-twitter-reacts-to-musks-takeover\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jokes, cheers and dire warnings: Twitter reacts to Musk\u2019s takeover<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}