Inside Trump’s Twitter Clone
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🗓️ 15 May 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Trump's Truth Social network was supposed to be the right's answer to Twitter. What happens to the company if Elon takes over?
Guest: Drew Harwell, reporter for the Washington Post
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 1:08.4 | Take a guess. How many times do you think Elon Musk has thrown you off your deadline? |
| 1:13.9 | Oh god. 20, 30, 40, and that's just me. Like across the newsroom probably thousands. |
| 1:21.1 | Drew Harwell covers technology for the Washington Post. No one has been as much of a deadline |
| 1:28.4 | nuker as, you know, compared to him as Donald Trump. Like he and Donald Trump always throw us off our |
| 1:35.1 | game. I was asking Drew that question because this week Elon Musk blew up our deadlines a few times. |
| 1:41.6 | First when he said that if he owns Twitter, he'll probably let Donald Trump back on. |
| 1:46.4 | And then on Friday morning when he tweeted that the deal was on hold but that he was still committed to it. |
| 1:52.2 | A deal being on hold by the way is not an actual legal term. It's hard to know right now how committed |
| 1:59.7 | Musk really is, but he certainly seems to think that a Twitter he owns should have the former president on it. |
| 2:06.2 | Trump was kicked off for inciting violence with his tweets about January 6th. |
| 2:10.9 | While Musk isn't alone in saying Trump's ban shouldn't be permanent, if he owns the company, |
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