Following the technical debacle that was Ron DeSantis’s campaign launch on Twitter Spaces, surely even Elon Musk die-hards must admit: The Tesla boss took over the platform from censorious technocrats and has turned it into something barely usable. Robust online discourse—once thwarted by Twitter’s liberal managerial class—has now fallen victim to something else: mismanagement and gimmicky profiteering.
It is hard to blame the DeSantis camp for trying to put the best spin on the situation, claiming that the event was such a massive hit that it “broke the internet.” The problem is that Musk has pinned his new Twitter enterprise on heroic competence, over and against the market-distorting, “ESG”-pushing meddlers of the left. (Something similar could be said for DeSantis in the political sphere.) But if that is your pitch, then things had better not break. They had better work and work well.
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