Marshall here. Welcome back to the realignment.

I'm recording the Centro right after Florida Governor Ronda Santas' campaign announcement

on Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk and previous realignment guests David Zack's wrapped up.

We hear more from me and Saga during our discussion episode next week on the announced but,

I'm really curious what you all thought, so the links to our email,

slash the sub-stack article in the show notes, go check there for those.

Also, if you'd like the full version of that discussion next week, be sure to go to

realignment.supercast.com where you could sign up to support the show and get access to our exclusive

content. On to the actual topic, glitches and horrible start. Aside, given the server-overlair

problems they ran into, the chat between DeSantis, Musk and Saks really illustrates all the factors

that make 2023 a pivotal moment for social media and the news industry. You've got a situation

where Vice became the latest digital media company to declare bankruptcy this month.

Those companies were founded in the 2000s and 2010s. They were supposed to ride the power and

reach of the Facebook algorithm to really dominate legacy media. That didn't end up working out.

At the same time, you've had young people who really start to retreat from Facebook itself.

You've seen new entrance geopolitics aside, like TikTok and turn of innovative formats,

like short form video, and we break up the way people are spending their time.

At the same time, ever since Elon acquired Twitter, you've had this interesting moment of

social media rebirth in the 2020s. You had new entrance like Clubhouse try to develop the audio

format that Twitter so successfully copied and elevated. You have also a bunch of alternatives

to Twitter. Some are on the right, some are on the left, some are on the center.

Here's the central issue that all these companies are responding to. One, the internet is

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