I think elon musk knows exactly what he is doing. People have a hard time in this reductive world of having complex things. He has an issue around free speech, which i think is a lot more hand waving than anything else. I don't quite know what he's going to do. If he lets it be a free for all, it turns into a place for advertisers. So then does he make it subscription? O pay a subscription where you get yelled at by anti vax bots all day long? No, thank you,. Like il, i'll be showing myself out essentially.
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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