A Purge is Underway on Twitter

Nadin Brzezinski
5 min readDec 16, 2022

Update: Overnight Musk was challenged by reporters on a Twitter space. What did Musk do? Leave the space and close Twitter Spaces of course. This is not insanity. I know people are saying this because it is almost incomprehensible for people living in open societies. However, this is precisely how authoritarians function.

Oh, without any sense of irony, here is the relevant tweet. It’s captured for posterity and history. It’s a crucial moment. At least Howard Hughes had these in private.

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Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB