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Current Events 16 | Should Twitter Have an "Edit" Button?

04.20.2022 - By Al SlaglePlay

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On the 16th episode of Current Events, Al goes over an interesting new development on the social media platform, Twitter. A couple of weeks ago, Tesla founder Elon Musk, purchased several shares of Twitter making him the largest solo owner. He, as well as other celebrities, have supported an editing feature for published tweets, that has never been added to the platform. Here are the key vocabulary:

to permit

editing

to urge

April Fools Day

board of directors

reportedly

free speech issues

poll

button

to oppose

propaganda

de facto

controversial

original

feature

Twitter Blue

to alter

conversation Article used in this episode: VOANews:

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