{"id":892002,"date":"2022-11-21T06:44:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T06:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=265904"},"modified":"2022-11-21T06:44:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T06:44:20","slug":"musks-twitter-purchase-furthers-the-media-concentration-that-harms-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/11\/21\/musks-twitter-purchase-furthers-the-media-concentration-that-harms-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s Twitter Purchase Furthers the Media Concentration that Harms Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media has gotten a bad name in recent years, much of it deserved, as it has played a sizable role in the spread of right-wing backwardness and even authoritarianism in much of the world. This includes, most prominently, the reach and especially staying power of the most powerful politician in the world\u2019s most powerful  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/11\/21\/musks-twitter-purchase-furthers-the-media-concentration-that-harms-democracy\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/11\/21\/musks-twitter-purchase-furthers-the-media-concentration-that-harms-democracy\/\">Musk&#8217;s Twitter Purchase Furthers the Media Concentration that Harms Democracy<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/11\/21\/musks-twitter-purchase-furthers-the-media-concentration-that-harms-democracy\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media has gotten a bad name in recent years, much of it deserved, as it has played a sizable role in the spread of right-wing backwardness and even authoritarianism in much of the world. This includes, most prominently, the reach and especially &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892003,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892002\/revisions\/892003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}