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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Messages Home Explore Notifications Messages Grok Bookmarks Jobs Communities Premium Verified Orgs Profile More Post Jeff Fossett @JFoss117 Post See new posts Conversation Daron Acemoglu @DAcemogluMIT A thread about what is wrong with the influence of Elon Musk and other tech billionaires. Another thread about content moderation will follow later this week. Obviously, the problem isn’t that Musk is expressing his opinions, which is his freedom of speech. It isn’t that Musk has turned into a big supporter of Trump. It isn’t even that Musk is posting AI-generated fake images of Kamala Harris: https://cnn.com/2024/09/03/media/elon-musk-x-kamala-harris-trump-misinformation/index.html… My concerns are more sociological and political economic. My starting point is that in any society some individuals have more, much more power than others. Once upon a time, this may have been linked to physical strength or military prowe

Daron Acemoglu @DAcemogluMIT A thread about what is wrong with the influence of Elon Musk and other tech billionaires. Another thread about content moderation will follow later this week. Obviously, the problem isn’t that Musk is expressing his opinions, which is his freedom of speech. It isn’t that Musk has turned into a big supporter of Trump. It isn’t even that Musk is posting AI-generated fake images of Kamala Harris: cnn.com/2024/09/03/med… My concerns are more sociological and political economic. My starting point is that in any society some individuals have more, much more power than ot

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