ANYTHING GOES SATURDAY
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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What will be the consequences of Elon Musk's Twitter shenanigans? Also- Veteran War Correspondent Phil Ittner joins Thom from Kyiv on what we know about the latest wave of missile attacks.
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| 0:46.6 | Elon Musk banned a bunch of journalists from Twitter. |
| 0:49.8 | They appear to be mostly people who were actually reporting on various aspects of Elon |
| 0:55.8 | Musk or Twitter or whatever that he was unhappy about, specifically reporters who had written |
| 1:02.1 | in-depth pieces on this and then were tweeting about them, stuff like that. |
| 1:05.8 | And he also suspended the websites of the people who were tracking his and other billionaires' private jets. |
| 1:12.4 | It looks like he's probably, and the people suspended, including Drew Harwell from the Washington Post, |
| 1:19.2 | Ryan Mac from the New York Times, Don Eosolivan from CNN, Steve Herman from Voice of America, |
| 1:25.0 | Michael Lee from the Intercept, former MSNBC host Keith Holberman. |
| 1:31.8 | I'm guessing that he's probably going to reverse this ban, and probably fairly quickly, |
| 1:36.7 | if for no other reason, that the European Union might end up banning Twitter if he doesn't. |
| 1:42.8 | But, you know, what does this mean for the course and fate and future of not just Twitter, |
| 1:52.4 | but also democracy? I've tried to up to this point largely, you know, avoid trying to figure out |
| 2:00.1 | what Elon Musk is thinking, because, you know, A, you know, he's his own guy and I'm my, you know, |
| 2:06.3 | but Twitter does affect all of us. So my guess at this moment and my prediction, as it were, |
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