Elon Musk’s Twitter two years on: How X was handed to the far-right
The Bunker – News without the nonsense
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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Your daily life often goes like this. |
| 0:05.0 | With Air France, choose instead. |
| 0:07.0 | W Wow. |
| 0:09.0 | Until the 21st of October, put your daily life on hold, take advantage of Air France moments |
| 0:17.2 | and book your flight to Beijing from 449 pounds flying from London Heathrow via Paris, |
| 0:22.1 | return including tax. |
| 0:24.0 | Elegance is a journey. |
| 0:26.0 | Air France. To book and for terms and conditions, |
| 0:28.0 | visit Air France.co. UK. It has been two years since Elon Musk bought Twitter and when he made this $44 billion purchase, he said the site must be |
| 0:45.8 | warm and welcoming for all, and that it could not become a free-for-all Hellscape where anything can be said |
| 0:51.5 | with no consequences. |
| 0:53.4 | So since then, more than a fifth of users have left the site, now known as X, which feels essentially |
| 0:58.5 | like a free-for-all healthscape where anything can be said with no consequences, at least not in terms of moderation from the platform. |
| 1:05.2 | The value of the site has also shrunk massively, with its estimated valuation down 79% from |
| 1:11.3 | when Musk bought it, according to figures from the asset manager, Fidelity. |
| 1:14.6 | With a little bit of space to consider it then, how has the Musk take over really been on the whole? |
| 1:20.7 | I'm Jacob Jarvis and joining me today is Ryan Broderick who writes the |
| 1:24.1 | Garbage Day newsletter and he's going to discuss with me what we think to the |
| 1:27.8 | Musk takeover two years on. Hi Ryan, thanks joining me. |
| 1:30.6 | Thanks for having me, excited to talk about my favorite guy. |
| 1:34.0 | Elon Musk. |
| 1:35.0 | Well, I mean, so on Musk, let's get him kind of out of the way a little bit up top. |
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