Is Elon Musk Killing Twitter?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The blue tick, Silicon Valley sackings and Donald Trump. What impact is all this having on America? A former content moderator at the company, who was fired by Musk, helps us answer that question.
And while many say Twitter is going off-the-rails, we talk through the US railroads. What’s working for them and what isn’t?
Americast is presented by North America editor Sarah Smith, Today host Justin Webb, the BBC's Social Media and Disinformation Correspondent Marianna Spring, and North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher.
Find out more about our "undercover voters" here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63530374
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This episode was made by Phil Marzouk and Alix Pickles. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham. The senior news editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Also, since this is America's, I assume all of us are going to be rooting for America when they play England in the World Cup soccer match on Friday. |
| 0:15.0 | That's a difficult question for a Scott when Scotland hasn't qualified in England has. |
| 0:20.0 | So yeah, I'll go for the USA, seeing as that's where I am living now. |
| 0:24.0 | I am a big England fan, I have watched them in the World Cup and the Euros before, so unfortunately I will most likely be supporting England, |
| 0:33.0 | but I'm also supporting Iran because they are the team I've got in the newscast sweepstake for the World Cup. |
| 0:40.0 | And if America's does are interested in hearing more about the World Cup, they should listen to newscast, which is also on BBC Sound. |
| 0:47.0 | And I mean Wales, I suppose they're able to support Wales because they haven't been in the World Cup since 1066, but I have to say I can't stand football. |
| 0:56.0 | Football to me is not even American football and it's rugby football and I find all this. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm glad you call it soccer, by the way, because it really does upset them and rightly so and properly so. |
| 1:08.0 | So anyway, I just hope the whole thing's over soon. |
| 1:11.0 | Justin, we had our own little sweep going on. How long it would take for you to mention rugby when we started talking about football, but on the game, anybody thought it was going to be that quick? |
| 1:19.0 | Right out of the gate. There's actually a lot of attention to the World Cup here in the US. |
| 1:23.0 | There's a large following and growing following for soccer in America, not only among the young folks who play it, but also fans who follow the Major League Soccer teams here in the US. |
| 1:34.0 | And a lot of people who watched that US Wales match just the other day, the US started really well. And I think all our hopes got up and then they had a kind of a lousy second half and ended up in a tie. |
| 1:45.0 | So there is a lot of pressure on the US team now to have a good result against England. |
| 1:50.0 | You could get a job doing that Anthony. You sound fantastic as a football commentator. |
| 1:54.0 | If all else fails, that's what he's going to do. I should say as well though, there's train chat also coming up. I'm much keen on that. |
| 2:00.0 | But first, it is all about the self-proclaimed chief twit, Elon Musk. |
| 2:06.0 | This is America's. |
| 2:10.0 | America's from BBC News. |
| 2:13.0 | Let me start off with two words. |
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