Commentary
Like WeChat in China, Elon Musk seeks to merge Twitter’s social media app, banking, payments, and many more activities into a single source of information—and monitoring.
A phone screen displays a photo of Elon Musk with the Twitter logo shown in the background in Washington on Oct. 4, 2022. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
James Gorrie
Author
James R. Gorrie is the author of “The China Crisis” (Wiley, 2013) and writes on his blog, TheBananaRepublican.com. He is based in Southern California.
