Coming soon: Elon Musk vs. Twitter

How It Happened

Axios

News, History, Politics

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

How it Happened: Elon Musk vs. Twitter is a first-of-its-kind newsroom collaboration featuring exclusive reporting on the rise of Elon Musk to become world's richest man, the parallel rise of Twitter as the global public square, and the collision of these two titans this year. This documentary season is hosted by Axios business reporter Erica Pandey and features reporting from political reporter Jonathan Swan, media reporter Sara Fischer, business editor Dan Primack, space reporter Miriam Kramer, and others. The podcast will go inside Elon Musk's world and inside his companies to understand how he achieved cross-industry dominance and what that says about how he might manage Twitter. It will also go deep inside Twitter's inner workings, with new reporting on key moments in its history, including the day President Trump's account was permanently suspended. The podcast will illuminate how Musk's tweet offering to buy the platform and subsequent back-track shook up the financial and tech worlds, how his politics have shifted, how the legal battle between Musk and Twitter could play out — and how all of this could impact his legacy. Subscribe to hear the new season when it launches in September.

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0:00.0	I'm Jonathan Swad, Axios' National Political Reporter, and host of the first season of
0:05.2	How It Happened.
0:06.2	I'm Erica Pandy, I cover the tech and business trends shaping the future.
0:10.7	In April, two tisons collided.
0:13.2	Elon Musk and Twitter.
0:15.1	The world's richest guy is set to buy one of the world's most influential social media
0:19.7	companies.
0:23.0	Next season, our exclusive reporting goes deep into Musk's empire and shifting politics.
0:27.6	We'll take you inside the fallout at Twitter when Musk submitted and then backtracked on
0:33.2	and offered to buy the platform.
0:35.0	What else do we know about Musk's reversal here?
0:38.0	We know that it's setting up a massive legal battle.
0:41.0	And we'll find out what Musk's vision for free speech could mean for us all.
0:45.4	When does free speech matter most?
0:46.6	It's when someone you don't like saying something you don't like.
0:50.4	You'll hear from high profile sources who are close to Musk and privy to his thinking
0:54.4	and decision-making.
0:55.8	LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
0:58.1	I read the tweet and then started texting it out to various friends of mine saying,
1:02.7	wow, this would change the world.
1:04.8	Experts who have watched him conquer industry after industry.
1:08.1	If you get people to work voluntarily, 60, 80 hours a week and you pay them at the
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