Linda Yacareno has been hired as the new chief executive of Twitter. Some have called her the adult in the room, while others say she'll be more like Gwynne Shotwell or Esther Crawford. Ryan: She's going to be serving at the behest of Elon Musk and will be ruled by his whims. Zoe: I think probably a mix of some of those models, but you know, the point of all this is that she's going to need to learn how to do that on the fly.
Twitter rose to prominence as a global public square that helped enable the Arab Spring, but Elon Musk has changed all that. The platform is complying with governments more, and a murky algorithm and blue check jungle makes it feel less relevant and less reliable than ever before.
Nayeema and Kara break down how the fruit has fallen and where it may eventually land (Yahoo Mail, anyone?) with Zoë Schiffer, managing editor of Platformer, and Ryan Mac, The New York Times’s tech and accountability reporter, who was among those banned by Musk back in December.
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