public square

plural public squares

1. Synonym of town square.

   For Musk it looked like an easy win in his effort to make Twitter the public square, especially one that attracts rightwing blowhards and steal a march on Fox News.

   2023 May 25, David Smith, “Failure to launch: Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   “The infrastructures of places like Mastodon and TikTok, which are wildly different from one another, of course, are too segmented to create the feeling of a truly public square,” Jackson says.

   2022 November 18, Jason Parham, quoting Sarah J. Jackson, “There Is No Replacement for Black Twitter”, in Wired, →ISSN

   Synonyms: town square