Elon Musk Is Destroying Twitter w/ Matt Binder

Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx

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4.8 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Paris Marx is joined by Matt Binder to discuss Elon Musk’s first six months at Twitter and how his obsession with blue checks has decimated the company’s finances. Matt Binder is a reporter at Mashable and the host of Scam Economy and Doomed. Follow Matt on Twitter at @MattBinder. Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and...

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0:00.0	In their view, the thing that was been holding them back this whole time is that they did not
0:04.5	have the blue check and that it was the blue check that made these users big.
0:10.4	They have it completely backwards and it's kind of hilarious that like they see someone
0:14.6	like Beyonce and they don't think to themselves, oh, Beyonce got the blue check because
0:18.7	she's a huge global phenomenon, huge superstar. No, they think that, oh, Beyonce got the blue check because she's a huge global phenomenon,
0:21.2	huge superstar.
0:22.9	No, they think that, oh, Beyonce's as big
0:24.9	as she is on this platform because she has the blue check.
0:45.5	You know, Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us.
0:46.7	I'm your host, Paris Marks.
0:55.5	And before we get into this week's episode, just a final update on the membership drive we were running last month for the podcast third birthday. know the podcast is now officially three years old and it's doing great we didn't hit our goal of 200 new
1:01.1	supporters but we did really well you know we got nearly 160 new supporters or upgraded supporters
1:07.6	last month which is really just fantastic And I want to thank all of you
1:12.2	who supported the show over on patreon.com. Of course, if you haven't already, you can always go
1:17.7	do that at any time. But since we did do so well, I still plan to do the Elon Musk series
1:24.1	that I was talking about, that I had set as a goal because you know what I really
1:29.4	want to do it. I know you would really enjoy it and I know that there'd be some more people who'd
1:34.1	come along to the show if we do it and give it a listen and hey, maybe they'll join up on patreon.com
1:39.6	as well. So as the show turns three, just a big thanks to everyone who supports the show, but also everyone who listens to the show and shares it with their friends and leaves us nice reviews on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and does all those things to kind of help the show grow, to help more people find out that it exists so that these critical perspectives on the tech industry can reach
2:00.8	even more people. And with that said, this week's guest is Matt Binder. Matt is a reporter at
2:06.7	Mashable and the host of scam economy and doomed. If you are on Twitter or follow the Twitter
2:12.4	news around everything that Elon Musk has been up to with it, you must have heard of Matt Binder
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