Elan musk is buying Twitter for forty four billion dollars. He needs twitter to at least be as profitable as it is right now. The most obvious thing he'll do immediately is cut the staff. There's some stuff you can throw on one way or the other, but it needs to run like a business that makes money. But this is all theory and we're just guessing.
Elon Musk and Twitter have reached a deal. Recode’s Peter Kafka and Shirin Ghaffary explain what it means for the business of Twitter, and for free speech on the platform.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram, who also edited.
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