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Channels with Peter Kafka

Elon and Twitter: A love/hate story

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk loves Twitter and also thinks it’s broken. So he wants to buy it. Can he, really? And who would help him? And why? And wtf does it mean when the world’s richest man is also one of its best shitposters? Bloomberg's Kurt Wagner and the Atlantic’s Derek Thompson try to help Recode’s Peter Kafka figure it out. Featuring: Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8), tech and social media reporter for Bloomberg Derek Thompson (@DKThomp), staff writer for The Atlantic and host of Plain English for The Ringer Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka, and that is me.

1:40.0

And today we're talking about Twitter.

1:41.4

You can guess why.

1:42.6

Okay, I'll tell you.

2:05.1

We're talking about Twitter because a couple days ago, Elon must say he wanted to buy it for $43 billion. But he didn't explain how he was going to do that, and we still don't know. But we have had enough time to digest the news, so it's a good time to weigh in. I talked to my old colleague Kurt Wagner, who covers Twitter for Bloomberg, to get us up to speed on Elon's finances and why the richest man in the world needs help to buy Twitter.

2:09.9

And most important, if there's any reason to believe that Twitter would be a better service or a better business if Elon Musk owned it.

2:13.2

And then I talked to Derek Thompson from the Atlantic, is one of my favorite writers and thinkers,

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