New, by me at FT

The coming battle between social media and the state

Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength

https://www.ft.com/content/917c9535-1cdb-4f6a-9a15-1a0c83663bfd

The coming battle between social media and the state

Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength

Financial Times
@davidallengreen sounds interesting! Shame it's paywalled 😕
@clanger9 @davidallengreen It’s available free through the “FT Edit” app - seems to be a collated set of the finest daily FT articles.

@clanger9 @davidallengreen Another useful trick - search for the article title using Google and use that link - it (usually) gives a one-shot view of the full thing.

(Disclaimer: I will bypass paywalls for one-offs. If I find I’m using the publication regularly then I do subscribe. Honest, Guv!)