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I'm so glad to be joined by Matt Stuller today on Bad Faith Pod.

We know him as the director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project.

He is the author of Goliath, the 100-year War between monopoly power and democracy.

And of course, author of the excellent Sub-Sac to which I am subscribed.

Big welcome back to the podcast, Matt.

Hey, thanks for having me.

So we were talking a little bit ago, I think last week on the hill about Elon Musk and

the Twitter buy.

And while a lot of the critique, the blowback, that has come his way on Twitter at least has

been from labels who are concerned about the character of the man and whether or not he

is truly invested in these free speech ideals that he reports to be invested in, you had

us a different kind of critique that I think is really interesting and I want to get into.

But first I wanted to ask you about this latest news that came out over the weekend about

what Elon Musk actually reports to do at Twitter in the New York Times.

Yeah, I saw it.

I think people don't really understand that Twitter is just a terribly managed company,

putting aside it's important to censorship or any other other issues.

I had a friend there who was there from the beginning and he used to tell me the leadership,

the management of Twitter is stoned all the time.

Like literally?

Like literally stoned all the time.

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