Kara: Elon Musk was depicting the Elon I know, which is he was very reasonable at times. And then this authoritarian side took over. He discussed his own mistakes around the Hunter Biden thing and talked about his own mistakes. The reason why Apple is that it charges so much as a cotton app stores because they are paying humans to review all these apps. Kara: Ultimately, you would also need people who have seen this. It's like having cops on the beat. They understand the malevolent players. They keep ahead of them. That one? I gotta tell you, that's not going to happen either.
Elon Musk's Twitter is a spectacle, and the drama and meaning of the last six months is perhaps best unpacked by Yoel Roth. The company’s former head of trust and safety survived the early flood of firings and resignations — in fact, he was ascendant, in the early days of this new Twitter, and he became the face Musk presented to advertisers. Kara asks Roth whether he felt “used” by Musk and why — having been embraced by Elon’s inner circle — he ultimately decided to abandon Elon.
Before the interview, Kara and Nayeema weigh in on Elon Musk’s seeming needling of Tim Cook, and they discuss whether Apple has too much power. Stay tuned until the end for Kara’s rant on this very topic.
You can find Kara and Nayeema on Twitter @karaswisher and @nayeema.
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