Elon Musk is trying to charge people $8 for Twitter blue and give the check marks to everybody who pays to verify people. He still hasn't really moved the needle on what you need to do to get rid of advertising, he says. The only way to do that is to make Twitter nicer so more people are happy about it,.
Twitter is about to suck for you. But it’s going to suck for self-proclaimed “Chief Twit” Elon Musk too. Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary and The Verge’s Nilay Patel explain.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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