Elon Musk handpicked Barry Weiss and Matt Taiby to sift through messages on Twitter. What we saw leaked out was just all the buildup among Twitter staff about how they're going to handle Donald Trump, who was increasingly making statements that seem to potentially cause problems for the elections. They see it that he is a leader of a violent extremist group who is glorifying the group and its recent actions.
Maybe not, but you’re going to be hearing about them for a while anyway. Republicans are saying they’ll use them to investigate the Biden administration.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and Victoria Chamberlain, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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