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I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

It has been a really weird time on Twitter lately.

So last night, Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk,

suspended journalists from big-name publications like CNN and The New York Times for doing pretty straightforward reporting about the banning of a Twitter account that tracked Elon Musk's

personal jet using publicly available FAA data.

Then, Musk joined a Twitter Spaces, which is basically Twitter's audio chat function, to talk about this.

And when BuzzFeed's tech reporter, Katie Notopoulos, grilled him about it and started really asking him some questions about his moderation inconsistencies,

Elon abruptly left the

spaces, and then Spaces was basically shut down for everyone, globally. Now, Elon said this was just a

glitch, but I don't know. That timing just seems awful suspicious to me. You know, when Elon first

bought Twitter, he went on and on

about how he wanted to make it this haven for free speech, even going so far as saying that he had

not banned the Twitter account that tweets about the location of his private jet. That is until

he did ban that account. And I think if reporters and journalists are going to be retaliated against

for doing pretty straightforward reporting about him, it sends a pretty clear signal about what he

actually thinks about protecting speech. And this all comes as Musk is also banning links to the

Twitter alternative Mastodon and flagging any links to Mastodon as containing malware. Honestly, it was wild.

So given all of this, I thought it might make sense to remember how we got here. So I joined my

friends Annie and Samantha over at the podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You to talk through the origin

stories of Elon Musk buying Twitter. And I'm curious, are you going to stay on Twitter?

Are you never on Twitter?

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