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The Rest Is Politics

71. Question Time: Elon Musk, Twitter, and regulating 'Big Tech'

The Rest Is Politics

Goalhanger

News, Politics, Government

4.5 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Join Alastair and Rory for the latest episode of Question Time where they discuss Elon Musk, Twitter, nation states vs. big tech, Amazon, John Reith, and much, much more. Plus Rory has asked his friend to calculate the number of 'bot followers' Alastair has! Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, enjoy ad-free listening, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Producer: Dom Johnson + Nicole Maslen Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to another episode of The Restless Politics Question Time with me, Alistair Campbell.

0:12.5

And me, Rory Stewart.

0:14.5

Oh my God, Rory, you sound even worse. You sound even worse. I think we're going to have to,

0:20.6

I don't know, maybe only speak, only speak if you really feel you have something very,

0:26.3

very important to say. And meanwhile, I always have something important to say. I always have

0:30.9

something important to say. I tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to give me one second

0:34.1

to get some strepsils. I've taped you off before for eating crisps. I'm not going to

0:39.0

tick you off if I hear a strepsil crunch. I know how. Now, I think we did, by the way,

0:46.6

where we get quite a few questions, but statements telling us that last week, when we were

0:53.3

celebrating the fact of Rishi Sunak being the first Prime Minister in Europe of Asian origin,

1:01.9

that we have Leo Veratka in Ireland, and we have Antonio Costa in Portugal.

1:08.0

Quite right. And including a correction from your friend, David Miliband, who came straight in on that.

1:12.6

He did. Leo Veratka's father, born in Bombay, moved from the UK to work as the doctor,

1:17.6

which is true for Rishi Sunak's father too. His mother, though, Leo Veratka's mother,

1:21.6

born in Dengargan County, Waterford. And Costa, I think Costa's father was from Goa, I think.

1:27.6

That's my, if I'm wrong about that, we'll correct that next week. Now, let's get on with

1:32.5

what we said yesterday that we'd talk about Elon Musk. Loads of questions about this. We had

1:38.0

another one from our favourite Swiss school, Lisa Tupfer. I think it's Swiss. Hi, as again,

1:44.0

what are the consequences of Musk buying Twitter? Teresa Tuy. I'm concerned about Musk's response

1:49.4

to the attack on Paul Pelosi. But I see it as part of how violence is rising along with misinformation,

1:55.4

with the use of these technologies, not just in the US, but around the world. Please discuss.

1:59.7

And I don't even saw this, Rory, but Musk retweeted a kind of right-wing new site conspiracy theory

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