Elon's whole kind of thing at the moment, like he's diagnosing the problems as just basically

saying about like, there isn't like an elite class of liberals who like have these advantages

on this platform and they use those advantages to make fun of me, but like by extension,

also all the people who like follow me and respect me and all those things.

But it's like, that's not like the key problem of this platform.

The key problem of this platform. The key

problem of this platform is like much more to do with just like the environment in which

social media like exists in at the moment, right?

Yeah. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us. I'm your host, Paris Marks.

And this week my guest is Hussein Kisvani.

Hussein is a co-host of Trash Future and 10,000 posts.

And he's also a journalist who has written for a bunch of different publications, including Mel, BuzzFeed, and BBC. Obviously,

you know what happened recently. Elon Musk took over Twitter and it has just been a mess. Ever

since that has happened, it's been hard to really take your eyes off the dumpster fire as Elon Musk has

continued tweeting through this whole process of taking over the company, trying to remake it

in the way that he thinks it should work, and constantly running into issues when he finds that

his vision for the company, the tweets that he's putting out there are not aligning with how other people

are feeling about it other than, you know, a kind of niche group of people who he seems particularly

aligned with, whether that is his cult or, you know, these people on the right who he has

increasingly associated with and taken these arguments around free speech and whatnot from.

And so over the past couple of weeks, we've seen Elon Musk put out these ideas for an $8

verification service with post-priority, bringing back Vine and other kind of video aspects

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