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The Bulwark Podcast

Kara Swisher: Musk's Cry for a Giant Hug

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk says that running Twitter is very painful, but it's a pain he brought on himself with firings, stunts, and overpaying for the company. Plus, Kara Swisher and Charlie Sykes discuss the art of podcasting, and the potentially much bigger goal behind the expansion of 'Don't Say Gay.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to the Bowler Podcast. I'm Charlie Sites. It is April 20, 2023. And for some bizarre

0:54.0

reason, I still have a blue check mark on my Twitter. It's going soon. Can you explain this to me?

0:59.3

I mean, by the way, we're joined by Cara Swisher, journalist, legendary host of the podcast on

1:04.6

with Cara Swisher, co-host of the podcast, Pivot. So no pressure on me to be interviewing a professional

1:12.4

legendary podcast host. You do very well, Charlie. You do very well. So what's with the blue check mark?

1:19.1

Why isn't it gone? What's going on? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Is a

1:23.7

technical answer. I think, you know, it's a very difficult thing to do, technically, with Twitter.

1:28.7

And especially when they have such a much smaller, yeah, it is. It can really iterate through the

1:33.3

system in not a good way. And so it's been explained to me by more technical people than myself. And

1:38.2

I'm not that technical. When you create these big changes on a platform like Twitter, which was

1:42.8

already a problematic platform to start with, you're going to see a lot of possible shutdowns,

1:48.8

things happening. And so they have to do it. The only one they took off was the New York Times,

1:52.9

because they said they weren't going to pay. And that was they just hand took it off. And so I

1:57.0

think there's a real difficulty figuring out who paid, who didn't, who to take off, who not.

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