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Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

E321. X's Censorship Controversy - Matt McDonald

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Bridget and Matt McDonald, managing editor at The Spectator magazine, dive into the bizarre story of Elon's alleged alt account, the story that revealed the truth, the subsequent censoring of the story on X and the suspension of the journalist's account. They also cover the chaotic world of modern journalism and social media, why the destruction of local journalism is bad for everyone, the H1B visa debate, the innovation of Community Notes, the state of media in 2025, the truth about dating a...

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0:00.0

It's funny. It's long overdue because you're one of those people that I, it's like,

0:05.2

oh, we can always have Matt on because he's my friend and editor and, and then it ends up never

0:12.1

happening. He's got nothing going on. So. Yeah. I don't know how you do it actually. How do you do it?

0:23.4

Matt, everybody, for those of you don't know, Matt McDonald is an ad. You're the, what are you?

0:29.3

What is your exact title? I'm the managing editor.

0:32.9

Managing editor. Yeah. You should be the editor-in-chief.

0:41.3

It's very generous and kind of you to say. It feels more like that's where you should be.

0:44.3

I'm not doing medieval court things, so no.

0:48.3

Matt has been editing me for, I guess, we just celebrated five years recently.

0:59.3

Was that it?

1:01.4

Yeah, I think so.

1:02.8

That would make sense.

1:04.6

Maybe.

1:06.0

I'm trying to think, you wrote your first piece for us was your Thanksgiving one, right?

1:10.0

Mm-hmm.

1:12.3

And I feel like that would either have been 20 the Thanksgiving of 2018 or 19 I think it was 18 oh might have been 18 so

1:18.8

therefore six six years six years yeah wow um that's crazy how did you get into this weird wacky world

1:27.4

because currently you have Um, that's crazy. How did you get into this weird, wacky world?

1:27.9

Because currently you have been caught in the crosshairs of our global leader, Elon Musk.

1:37.3

Well, you are the spectator in particular.

1:40.8

And now that piece is unbanned is the journalist who wrote it still.

1:45.9

So for people who don't know, explain what happened for people who don't know.

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