Twitter has activated a shareholder rights plan, more commonly known as a poison pill. For two hundredand ten dollars, you can get 420 dollars worth of twitter shares. This is like, very dobs uccession. I can, i can chok it, the poison fill. Let's twitter dilute their shares. A and importantly, this also features the weed number. How does the world react to that? I don't think people think it's real. And i'll tell you why.
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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