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Heritage Explains

LIVE: The New Twitter?

Heritage Explains

Heritage Podcast Network

Education

4.7847 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Former Facebook employee and director of our tech policy center, Kara Frederick, joins us to break down what Elon Musks’ purchase of Twitter means for not only conservatives, but the digital space — and what’s next for tech giants.

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0:00.0

From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Desher, and this is Heritage Explains live.

0:20.4

Music and this is Heritage Explains live.

0:41.3

Okay, Elon Musk purchases Twitter, $44 billion, chump change, and this represents a major shakeup to big tech companies that we know wield tremendous power over free expression.

0:44.1

On this episode of Heritage Explains Live, we have Kara Frederick in.

0:48.4

She's a director of the Tech Policy Center here at the Heritage Foundation, and she is loaded

0:52.8

forbear on this.

0:54.3

What does it mean?

0:55.1

And most importantly, where do we go from here as conservatives?

1:00.3

So let's get into it now.

1:02.3

Roll that tape, John Pop.

1:04.4

Okay, we are live.

1:06.5

Now, we've all seen the news wall to wall.

1:08.8

Elon must purchase of Twitter for $44 billion and just,

1:13.3

just chump change. It represents a major, massive shakeup to the big tech companies that we know

1:23.2

wield tremendous power over free expression. As you know, the Heritage Foundation has called

1:29.3

for aggressive reforms to ensure that these companies are held accountable for their desire

1:35.3

to reshape society to left-wing ideology. But Kara, now Elon Musk has come on the scene,

1:43.1

and yet again, he's a disruptor.

1:46.2

I mean, this guy is probably, that's a defining word for him, a disruptor to the way things

1:50.9

have been and now they are going.

1:54.0

And we see an opportunity as conservatives to maybe gain some ground back.

1:58.8

So we're going to get into that a little bit.

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