Is Twitter a Public Square?

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There's been a lot of talk this week and last week about twitter being the public square. Is there any question as to the legality of this transaction? No, some of the flags that you mally get to throw with a deal like this, oh, there'll be an anti trust issue. There's no anti trust issue here. He's not consolidating social networks. He wants to buy twitter. It's a publicly created company.

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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