Elon Musk’s Twitter troubles
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Twitter is supposed to be the digital version of the public square. But what happens when the richest person in the world buys it and tells you how to vote? We’ll talk about why that’s troubling and whether Twitter is turning into the next Truth Social. Plus, young Latinas in Texas are using their quinceañeras to get their communities to the polls. And, after years of complaints, Airbnb is finally doing something about those pesky hidden fees.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
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- Airbnb makes cleaning fees more transparent with total price searches from The Washington Post
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- “National Park Service Asks Visitors to Please Stop Licking Toads” from The New York Times
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Tignotaro and despite my request that you stop asking me questions |
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| 0:16.6 | Oh my goodness, gravely good way to start on |
| 0:20.6 | In it though |
| 0:22.1 | Hey, everyone. I'm Kai and Rizzo. Welcome back to make me smart where we make today make sense |
| 0:27.4 | And I am Kimberly Adams happy Monday. Thank you for joining us on this election |
| 0:34.0 | Eve which I imagine has many of us |
| 0:37.0 | wrapped up in trepidation anxiety or whatever feelings you may have we've got news and some smiles and lots to talk about today |
| 0:45.6 | So without further ado Kai with T news fix all right. I'll go first |
| 0:49.5 | I've got two actually and I just I want to just super quick talk about this Elon Musk suite today |
| 0:55.9 | And I don't want to talk about Musk and Twitter and all of the you know layoff not layoff eight dollars |
| 1:01.6 | I don't care about any of that crap. I mean he tweeted this morning at 722 loss angelist times |
| 1:08.0 | He here's what he said and remember this is guy who now has complete control of a transnational communications platform |
| 1:14.9 | Two independent minded voters shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties therefore |
| 1:21.1 | I recommend voting for a Republican Congress given that the presidency is democratic |
| 1:25.1 | now |
| 1:27.1 | I guess |
| 1:29.3 | He's entitled to his opinion and I guess he's allowed to tweet what he wants |
| 1:34.9 | But it just kind of comes off different when you've got a hundred fifteen million people available at your back and call on a platform that you now have complete control over |
| 1:43.5 | And I don't know why it troubles me so much other than that, but it really kind of troubles me |
| 1:50.9 | I think it's |
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