On Wednesday, Governor Ron DeSantis officially kicked off his campaign for the presidency in a Twitter space with Elon Musk. But like a SpaceX rocket launch, things didn't go quite as planned failure to launch. The event started late, had technical difficulties and drew fewer than 600,000 listeners who were crashing completely. People are pegging it at 150,000 to 200,000 maybe at concurrent users.
Meta will sell Giphy in an antitrust loss, and the man who ran a Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s private jet is now tracking Ron Desantis. Also, the latest in the culture wars: A Florida school has limited access to Amanda Gorman’s poetry, and Target will remove some Pride merch after a backlash. Plus, Governor Ron DeSantis announced his presidential run on Twitter Spaces… and it didn’t go quite as planned. And the Surgeon General warns that social media may be harmful to young users. Then, a listener question on HBO Max rebranding to Max.
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