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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Yes, you may. Please share as widely as you care to.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’ll post the letter on my Facebook page too!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Colin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">reading-hall-of-fame-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk <reading-hall-of-fame-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk> on behalf of Cynthia Greenleaf <cgreenl@wested.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, 31 October 2022 at 14:27<br>
<b>To: </b>Colin Harrison <ttach@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk><br>
<b>Cc: </b>reading-hall-of-fame@lists.nottingham.ac.uk <reading-hall-of-fame@lists.nottingham.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Musk posts baseless conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thank you Colin,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">May I share this letter with others?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Cynthia Greenleaf, PhD</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">cgreenl@wested.org</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On Oct 31, 2022, at 7:17 AM, Colin Harrison <colin.harrison@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Dear editor</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">If posting baseless conspiracy theory stories that are immediately reposted and that gain tens of thousands
of 'likes' within hours is Elon Musk's idea of democratising social media, then I'm going to follow the lead of other European academics who have contacted me today from Germany and the Netherlands to say that they are permanently unsubscribing from Twitter
(Musk posts baseless conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack on Twitter, Guardian, 30 October). I've spent much of the last ten years researching how best to educate young people into becoming safe and confident Internet users, but this becomes more difficult
every day. Academics and teachers need to let Musk know that his thoughtless and dangerous behaviour does not broaden democracy. Instead, it supports the view, already held by tens of millions of Americans, that if you don't like the world that democracy has
given you, you simply use money and violence (amplified by social media) to eliminate it. Twitter has a unique foothold within social media and is widely used by academics, but ELINET, a research consortium of literacy academics from 28 European nations, has
already unsubscribed. Musk needs to learn what Kanye West learned last week: that social media actions have consequences.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Yours sincerely</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Colin Harrison</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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