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title: "But nothing brought home the need for a Twitter alternative like last night’s…"
date: 2023-05-30T18:44:00.000Z
author: Ricardo Mendes
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# But nothing brought home the need for a Twitter alternative like last night’s…

But nothing brought home the need for a Twitter alternative like last night’s disastrous launch of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign. It was a mashup of everything wrong with Twitter: It featured “free speech absolutist” Musk cavorting with a literal fascist book burner, and the whole announcement went down in flames because of technical difficulties. 

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