Elon Musk vs. Twitter Part IV: Musk's Must-Do List

How It Happened

Axios

News, History, Politics

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🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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How It Happened: Elon Musk vs. Twitter Part IV: Musk's Must-Do List features reporting from Axios media reporter Sara Fischer about the challenges at Twitter that Musk could inherit — and what he might do about them. Fischer takes listeners inside Twitter to understand how the platform has struggled with content moderation over the years. The episode unpacks Musk's vision for free speech and what it could mean for a platform that has become the global public square. Credits: This series was reported by the Axios newsroom including Erica Pandey, Amy Pedulla, Naomi Shavin, Sara Fischer, Dan Primack, Miriam Kramer, Joann Muller, Javier E. David, Jonathan Swan, Ina Fried, Ashley Gold and Hope King. Fact-checking by Jacob Knutson. Erica Pandey hosts. Amy Pedulla is reporter-producer. Naomi Shavin is senior producer. Scott Rosenberg and Alison Snyder are the series editors. Sara Kehaulani Goo is the Editor-in-Chief and executive producer. Mixing and sound design by Ben O'Brien. Music supervision by Alex Sugiura. Theme music and original score by Michael Hanf. Special thanks to Axios co-founders Mike Allen, Jim VandeHei and Roy Schwartz. Thanks to Zach Basu, Lucia Orejarena, Priyanka Vora, and Brian Westley.

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0:00.0	Ewan Musk struck a deal to buy Twitter at a price of roughly $44 billion bucks.
0:10.8	But the question is, what's he going to do with it?
0:13.8	I mean, you've got one of the most innovative product people worth more money than anyone
0:20.8	else on planet Earth.
0:23.4	Ewan Musk doesn't know anything about free speech and doesn't know anything about governance.
0:28.2	In my mind, he's just a random person who happens to have billions and billions of dollars.
0:34.7	I'm Sarah Fisher, the media reporter at Axios and your guest host of this episode of How
0:40.2	It Happened.
0:41.2	Eric Opande will be back with the next episode.
0:44.6	As of this taping, October 21st, we know it's more likely than not that Musk will own
0:49.6	Twitter, a crucial global platform that has been the site of social movements and also
0:55.0	a hotbed for misinformation.
0:57.6	What exactly is he taking on?
1:00.1	And what is his vision for changing it?
1:12.9	In this episode, I'm going to be sharing my reporting to take you inside Twitter.
1:18.7	You'll meet former Twitter employees, financial analysts, and a major player in the social media
1:25.1	landscape who once advised President Trump.
1:29.8	I'll take you to the ways this platform impacts geopolitics, the engineering and business
1:34.8	challenges that have been set Twitter for years, and the tension between free speech ideals
1:40.9	and the urgent problems that arise when anyone can say anything, even threats of violence.
1:48.7	And you'll learn why Ewan Musk thinks this platform matters, and what we know currently
1:53.3	about how he wants to change it.
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