M jin: Does it feel risky to have someone who's been perhaps one of the most ino conspicuous trolls on twitter in charge of the platform and its ideas around content moderation and free speech? i bet twitters board does. One way that you fend off elon musk is you go find yourself a white knight to make a better offer than elan musk, and then you're like, yes, so we're goin to go with a better offer. Thanks.
Elon Musk says he wants to buy Twitter, but is also making 420 jokes. Kara Swisher (who knows him) and Liz Lopatto (who doesn’t) explain whether the world should take him seriously (or care).
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Matthew Collette and Amina Al-Sadi, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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