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It’s Time to Kill Twitter, Before It Kills Us

It's a haven for bullying and sociopathic behavior that goes unchecked by its leaders.
It enables terrorists, hate groups, Donald Trump and Kanye West, and is more adrift than not.
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Twitter falls into that category of something we once thought was good for us but turned out to be toxic, like cigarettes or asbestos. The site is notorious as a haven for bullying and sociopathic behavior. It enables terrorists and hate groups. It enables Kanye West. Despite pledges to clean up the site, Twitter’s leadership has done next to nothing.

Twitter has, of course, also enabled Donald Trump. Half the voters in the U.S.—or, well, about 3 million less than half—think this is splendid. The other half, and just about the entire rest of the

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