Is Elon Musk a Twitter Speculator?

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk is trying to make himself the most popular user on the platform. Is he getting what he paid $44 billion for, which was to kind of like take his enemies down a peg and promote himself? The only person who thinks Twitter is being run the way that they would personally run at is Elon Musk. Zoe Casey: I can't wait for the new rule that if one of your tweets gets more engagement than one of Elon's tweets, you're permanently banned from the platform.

“I’m Sydney, and I’m in love with you. 😘”

A conversation with Bing AI (aka Sydney) turns romantic and bizarre. Why Microsoft’s AI search tool appears more powerful — and unsettling — than we thought. Then, inside Elon Musk’s quest to be the most popular user on Twitter.

Plus: It’s not just you. Online ads have gotten much worse.

On today’s episode:

Tiffany Hsu is a technology reporter at The New York Times who covers misinformation and disinformation.
Zoë Schiffer is the managing editor of Platformer.

Additional reading:

Bing AI appeared to have a split personality in a conversation with Kevin Roose, a “Hard Fork” co-host.
Elon Musk ordered changes to Twitter’s algorithm after his Tweets did not perform as well as he desired.
Why digital ads are so bad these days.