There’s a lot of toxicity on Twitter, but I don’t know of a better platform for speaking truth to power, undercutting hegemonic narratives or shining light on things we’d otherwise know very little about, like the protests in Hong Kong (previously Occupy, Arab Spring, etc.). Individual journalists and people on Twitter covered the protests inside the DNC in 2016; Disney-owned CNN didn’t. (More hilariously, the Twitterverse also shut down Disney’s “Incredibles 2” Oscar campaign series of tweets with memes from Sony’s more deserving “Into the Spider-Verse”, which ultimately won) So I imagine that’s the sort of thing Iger shakes his fist at the sky about when he daydreams about buying Twitter.
In general, I’m kinda surprised by the negative perceptions of Twitter, given how key it was as a platform to giving steam to movements like #MeToo and #BLM etc. Anyone want to imagine how far those movements go under Disney-owned Twitter?
