How Could Elon Musk, Twitter's New Largest Shareholder, Influence the Platform?
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🗓️ 13 April 2022
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| 1:03.1 | Welcome back to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. So first, Elon Musk was going to join Twitter's board. |
| 1:10.1 | After it was revealed that he's now the |
| 1:12.7 | social media giant's largest individual shareholder. Now he's not going to be on the board, |
| 1:18.3 | which is raising questions and stoking fears about how Musk, the multi-billionaire, SpaceX and Tesla |
| 1:25.4 | founder, who has actually had a beef with Twitter for some time, |
| 1:29.1 | could affect the communication platform that some 200 million people use every day. So joining me |
| 1:36.4 | for some insight is Sarah Fryer, a tech reporter for Bloomberg, and author of No Filter, |
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| 1:45.1 | Thanks for having me. Also, Reid Albergotti is with us, tech reporter for the Washington Post. |
| 1:50.3 | Reid, thanks so much for being on as well. It's great to be here. |
| 1:54.2 | So, Reed, first, can you just remind us of some of the tensions that existed between Musk and Twitter before Elon Musk amassed a 9% |
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