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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Can Twitter Sue Elon Musk Into Submission?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Dysfunction is nothing new to Twitter. But Elon Musk pulling his offer to buy the company adds a new layer of chaos.

Guest: Alex Kantrowitz

Host: Lizzie O'Leary


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1:07.6

If you want to like sum up the mood inside of Twitter right now, how would you describe it?

1:14.6

It's pretty ugly in terms of the way that the employees are reacting to this.

1:19.3

Journalist Alex Cantrowitz writes the newsletter Big Technology,

1:22.8

and he hosts the podcast with the same name. So he's been following every twist and turn in the saga

1:28.6

of Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter and his very public change of heart. That includes the emotional

1:34.8

roller coaster Twitter's 7,000 employees have been on. They feel like they've been left out to dry

1:42.2

by their CEO who has now pursued this deal to somebody who doesn't want to buy the company

1:47.6

and has promised big changes inside the company indicated layoffs are coming, disparage their work.

1:55.2

And up until this week, the company really hasn't said much in their defense.

2:00.8

Now following Musk's announcement that he does not want to buy Twitter, the company has sued

2:05.7

to try to make the deal go through. Or at least cushion this spectacular blowup with a lot of

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