A brief overview of the political landscape

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The results of that survey were even more interesting. The majority, 70%, do not believe that Twitter properly adheres to the principle of freedom of expression . In any case, it is a biased survey since it was directed at Musk's followers, so it has no scientific basis.

During this week, Musk also made more controversial tweets saying that he would work to “ make meaningful improvements to Twitter ,” and made another poll, this time asking if his followers mexico phone number list wanted an edit button . Twitter quickly said that Musk will not be deciding on product roadmaps and that the edit button was being developed long before the billionaire’s poll .

The fact is that Musk has a history of complaining about Twitter's moderation tools, even though the social media platform did not remove even his anti-vaccine posts and bad "jokes" that even involved Hitler. For Musk, because of the moderation tools, Twitter's new CEO Parag Agrawal is compared to Joseph Stalin, for example.

Blaming Twitter, Facebook or YouTube (and even past and present generations) for impeding our freedom of expression is just scratching the surface of the whole problem. Manipulation, fake news and even censorship seem to be the daily breakfast for all social media users.

The big question is: who to believe? How can we learn to trust our own timeline? And how to prevent personal harm from it? In this article, we will discuss the mysteries about our freedom of speech and social media today .

One of the first episodes where people started talking about this topic was with the Cambridge Analytica scandal , which showed how the US Republican Party was misusing Facebook data to create voter profiles in the 2014 elections.

The backlash was the first indication of how social media is capable of shaping behavior . And it also led to many conspiracy theories, asking the same question: If we are being manipulated through social media, do we really have freedom of speech?

In other scenarios, political leaders such as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have shown their appreciation for other social platforms, such as Telegram, which the Brazilian justice system wanted to block . However, other channels, such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, have rejected Bolsonaro for violating rules to prevent the spread of misinformation.