Culture wars: Musk’s Twitter punt, French election
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🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:26.8 | Elon Moss goes long on Twitter hype, and Emmanuel Macron faces a dicey election against his far-right |
| 0:33.1 | opponent. |
| 0:37.4 | Welcome back to the views room. I'm your co-host Amy Donlon, a columnist of Breaking |
| 0:41.9 | Views, coming to you from the suburbs of London. Elon Musk added $10 billion to the value |
| 0:48.6 | of Twitter after he disclosed a 9% stake in the social media platform. He also revealed that he had joined the board. |
| 0:56.0 | However, just what exactly the Tesla chief executive can do to boost Twitter's business by such a sum is unclear. |
| 1:02.0 | In Europe, French voters are gearing up to select their next French president and conditions are tricky for incumbent Manuel Macron. |
| 1:10.0 | The war in Ukraine has sparked a surge in energy prices and Macron is asking French people to work harder for longer. |
| 1:16.7 | Meanwhile, his rival Marine Le Pen is gaining ground in polls, having wooed voters with economic policies |
| 1:22.6 | aimed at improving the fortunes of the man on the street. |
| 1:26.5 | First, my colleague Peter Tal-Larsson chats to Jonathan Guilford in New York about Elon Musk's |
| 1:31.8 | big punt on Twitter and why the $10 billion share boost may be as much as investors can hope |
| 1:37.3 | for. |
| 1:38.3 | Then I speak to columnist Pierre Branson in London about the challenges facing Emmanuel Macron |
| 1:43.5 | in the upcoming French election. |
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