Re:Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by th...
by nicce on Monday December 19, 2022 @07:01AM
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Washington Post has had many "Opinions" in the past, which are directly related on supporting Bezos's wealth or business models.
Whether they have been pressured by Bezos or in some way, is uncertain, but it certainly leaves the benefit of the doubt.
Stating unilaterally that Bezos & Murdoch exert no influence over the content of their publications can't be grounded in any fact because any potential influence they might exert would never be public knowledge. It's falsifiable (as many commenters have done with Murdoch) but it's not provable. There's a lot of circumstantial evidence Bezos does too: it will probably remain circumstantial since he is in a position to keep it that way.
Twitter content being crowdsourced means that Musk as owner has far less direct influence. All he can really do is censor, which is exactly what we've seen play out.