A few weeks back, Elon Musk unhinged his metaphorical jaw and began attempting to devour the entirety of Twitter, something the social media behemoth unsurprisingly did not appreciate. And while it is currently unclear if he will be successful in this gastronomic endeavor, many experts are worried that the societal consequences will be unimaginable if he manages to pull it off.
“This is a disaster,” Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, summarily told The Washington Post over the weekend, later explaining that Musk’s potential access to Twitter’s private data troves “cannot be compared to anything that has ever existed, and allows intervention into the integrity of individual behavior and also the integrity of collective behavior.”
