European University Institute - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Elon Musk is already turning Twitter into MySpace | Nicolas Petit Professor Nicolas Petit has recently published an op-ed in EUobserver, commenting on the risk of Musk’s Twitter is a free speech cesspool where political polarisation is the rule, and consensus formation the exception. 09 November 2022 | Opinion Print Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email This piece by European Competition Law Professor Nicolas Petit published in EUobserver on 8 November 2022 tackles the changes that Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter could bring to the platform. "To start, Musk is a patented free-speech absolutist. With this, there is every reason to believe that Musk will rescind past Twitter policies considered an attack on free speech (...) If Musk's orbital trajectory is towards multiplying political dog fights and opening the platform's gates to far out opinions, the promise is not a better Twitter. The promise is MySpace, a successful social network from the 2000s that fizzled when users started to share obscene, nasty, and outrageous content." Continue reading Nicolas Petit’s latest publication in EUobserver. Last update: 09 November 2022