Commentary
Where’s Max Weber When You Need Him?
The grand analyst of the workings of “charisma” would doubtless have something to say about this week’s most inflated saga: Elon Musk’s star-crossed efforts to take over the anti-social social media company, Twitter.
The story thus far has been eagerly picked over by the commentariat.
The main fuel for the melodrama is the contradiction between Twitter’s legacy identification as a scrappy media company that supported free expression, and its present reality: a thoroughly illiberal repository of trendy left-wing attitudinizing and intolerance.
Remember: Twitter deplatformed, i.e., kicked off, Donald Trump, the President of the United States, in the run-up to the 2020 election.
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