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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Free Speech Inc.: Will Musk Break Twitter?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

News of Elon Musk buying Twitter has enraged some users – but what could he actually do with the platform? Could he break it in the ways some fear? Alex Andreou is joined by Charles Arthur, former technology editor of The Guardian and author of Social Warming: The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media, to discuss what the billionaire tech mogul might do with the site.  “You have to distinguish between the Musk you see on Twitter and the one who's in business.” “Twitter does have enormous value to it, but no one has found a way to extract that value.” “Don't listen to what he says, watch what he does.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast     Written and presented by Alex Andreou. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Assistant Producer: Elina Ganatra. Audio production by Jade Bailey. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker daily I am your host Alex Andro. Love him or hate him as one of the most

1:15.2

important figures in the technology industry today. Ilen Musk cannot be ignored.

1:20.6

Ever since his days as a founder of PayPal, the Marmite leader of Tesla and SpaceX,

1:26.0

carries himself with a combination of confidence and weirdness that is myth-making.

1:31.0

And he is now in the process of buying Twitter outright and taking it completely private.

1:37.0

You want to have a future where you're expecting things to be better, not one where you're expecting things to be worse, he said a few years ago.

1:46.0

Well, for millions of Twitter users, his acquisition brings them very much to the latter prediction.

1:51.9

My guest today is here to help me navigate the waters of what may lie ahead for the

1:56.0

social network under Musk's stewardship.

1:59.3

Charles Arthur is a technology and science journalist with over 20 years experience, the former technology editor for The Guardian in Independent.

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