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Various responses to the Trump/Twitter fact check thing make clear that too many people still think that if we can just figure out the right levers to pull (no not that one, try this one!) then we can make Twitter better and there'll somehow be a happy ending
But the thing is: for the most part, the big social platforms are fundamentally, inherently broken - to their core, irredeemable. They developed with the wrong priorities (profit, market power, scale) and need to be systematically dismantled and rebuilt along a different frame
I get it! It's difficult to accept that this is the situation. It can feel like giving up. And there are a lot of good ideas! But, really, without structural change, too much intellectual energy is being expended by too many good people trying to put a plaster on the unfixable
It doesn't matter what levers you pull. Doesn't matter how nicely you ask them to be better. Doesn't even really matter what Twitter does (a nudge towards fact checking will make no difference). There are structural problems that tinkering can't fix. Dismantle and start again
