Elon Musk boosts antisemitic tweet and advertisers leave Twitter - Elon’s Media Matters lawsuit explained
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
There’s a lot going on with Twitter! It’s been a few weeks since we’ve done an installment of our segment, “What’s Elon Done Now?” because we were sick of talking about him. But some big things happened this week, so Bridget sits down with Producer Mike to recap and talk about what it all means.
From Elon boosting antisemitic tweets and calling it “actual truth” to Media Matters releasing a damning report about hate speech on the platform and major advertisers pulling the plug, it’s been an eventful week.
Media Matters report on Twitter ads being placed next to nazi content: https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/musk-endorses-antisemitic-conspiracy-theory-x-has-been-placing-ads-apple-bravo-ibm-oracle
How Elon Musk came to have so much leverage over the U.S. government, and the U.S. military’s uncomfortable reliance on Starlink. (it’s a long read but a good one): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule
Dr. Caroline Orr Bueno’s Twitter thread on informational dark spaces: https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1726851801658589525
Elon Musk’s ‘thermonuclear’ lawsuit over hate-adjacent ads on X… actually confirms them: https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/20/elon-musks-thermonuclear-lawsuit-over-hate-adjacent-ads-on-x-actually-confirms-them/
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| 0:00.0 | It's one thing if you show up to a party and there's a few people there who are awful. |
| 0:04.7 | It is quite another if you show up to the party and the host is awful. |
| 0:14.2 | There Are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is there are no girls on the internet. |
| 0:27.8 | Okay, so Mike, for folks who listen to the newscast, they might recall that we do a little |
| 0:32.5 | segment from time to time all about Elon Musk and Twitter. |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah, that's right. |
| 0:37.4 | We're doing it like every week for a while because it was just like one dumb thing after |
| 0:43.2 | another nonstop. |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah, and I've kind of been, I don't know if you've noticed, kind of been lessening the |
| 0:49.7 | amount of times I talk about Elon Musk or trying to, I guess if I'm going to keep it really real, trying to lessen the amount of times I talk about Elon Musk or trying to, I guess if I'm going to be keep it really real, |
| 0:54.8 | trying to lessen the amount of times I talk about Elon Musk on the podcast. |
| 0:58.0 | It has been a while since we've heard about Elon on here. What's the deal, Bridget? |
| 1:03.5 | I don't know. I think it just got to be a little bit too much. You know, I still plan on doing |
| 1:08.0 | those segments on the newscast, but it just felt like every day |
| 1:13.0 | he was doing something infuriating and it was taking up a lot of room from other things that we |
| 1:17.8 | could be diving into. Honestly, I think if I talked about every instance of Elon Musk doing |
| 1:23.2 | something infuriating or objectionable, it would be all we talked about on this podcast. And listen, |
| 1:30.2 | there are many good tech podcasts out there that are dedicated to solely covering Elon Musk |
| 1:37.5 | and solely covering his tenure at Twitter. Their good podcasts recommend them. That is not my ministry. |
| 1:43.7 | I do not want to publish an Elon Musk-themed |
| 1:47.4 | podcast, but if I were to cover everything that he says and does, I absolutely would find |
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