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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast today is Tuesday, April 26th, 2020.

2022 I'm John Potwarts the editor of commentary with me as always executive editor a green walled high a John senior writer Christine Rose and high Christine

Hi John and associate editor Noah Rothman. I know. Hi John

You'll on musk the richest man in the world

Has bought Twitter apparently is on the verge of buying Twitter and taking a private

Meaning he is paying

Is it

46 billion

That's a 44 billion a finance deal. It's not like this is coming out of his pocket

Well no one third of it apparently is coming out of his pocket one third of it is coming through an investment vehicle

And there's a missing third or something, but anyway

So we've been talking about this for a couple of weeks and

and it's a fascinating moment because you know obviously Jeff Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post

Basically at a fire sale where I pay 250 million dollars for the Washington Post a property that once was worth five or six billion

Elon Musk swings for the fences has bought an entire social media platform

I think as we were talking about this this is the first

Takeover or change an ownership of a social media platform in this fashion ever

Either they folded or they've been swallowed up by other social media platforms and

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