🧵1/ Musk is making Twitter much less transparent, much less accountable, & thus more vulnerable to manipulation. Many of the often poorly resourced activists & academics using the API to tackle foreign influence ops will no longer be able to. Governments should worry #TwitterAPI
@marcowenjones Have been informally monitoring things back on twitter since moving to mastodon. If the changes I’ve seen are any clue, soon we’ll see neighbors hacking up neighbors in the street.
@DFHobbs let's hope not
@marcowenjones Based on past experiences it would appear that hope isn’t going to provide us much protection.