Elon’s Twitter is in the Sh*tter with Nilay Patel

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Nilay Patel, Editor-in-Chief of The Verge and host of the Decoder podcast, talks with Jon about Elon Musk’s newest and thorniest business venture: purchasing Twitter. In a recent article, “Welcome to Hell, Elon,” Patel describes the quandary that awaits the Tesla founder and argues that Musk has made a historic mistake. He joins Offline to talk Musks’ misguided free speech promises, the limits of technical solutions to political problems, and the hubris of an internet troll-turned-King Twit.

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0:00.0	I saw David Sacks tweet this yesterday that he's like, well, should, you know,
0:04.1	the Atlantic and the New York Times and all these subscription paid sites, like,
0:08.5	should they just give away their content for free?
0:10.8	Is that what you're all saying?
0:11.6	Who don't want to pay for Twitter blue?
0:13.1	And I'm like, yeah, but this is the opposite.
0:16.0	This, we're providing the content for Twitter, all of us.
0:19.1	Yeah.
0:19.8	And they're now saying that you have to pay to provide the content for Twitter.
0:23.4	There's a real part of this, you know, you can't pin it down, but there's a real
0:27.4	part of this where all this is extremely well explained if you just realize that
0:31.9	they're all fucking addicted to Twitter.
0:35.0	Like their brains are poisoned and their addiction is deep and they think
0:39.5	everyone wants cigarettes just as much as they do.
0:42.6	And it's like, actually, I don't, you know, like, I don't need this so bad.
0:46.5	I have to pay you.
0:48.9	I'm John Favreau.
0:49.9	Welcome to offline.
0:53.6	Hey, everyone.
0:54.2	My guest today is Neelai Patel, editor in chief of the verge and host of the podcast
0:58.3	decoder.
0:59.6	You may have heard that Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter finally went through.
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