Needs Musk? Tumult at Twitter
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk may be stepping down as chief executive, but he has already changed the firm’s fortunes—and shown that social media’s free-speech struggle is far from over. A bit of fried dough in Kenya reveals how cost-of-living concerns in Africa manifest as shrinkflation. And why members of South Korea’s pop behemoth BTS are headed into the armed forces.
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| 1:12.8 | And in London, I'm Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:21.8 | Deep-fried dough can be many things. A donut eaten for breakfast. A sufffgana eaten for Hanukkah. But in Kenya, |
| 1:30.1 | it's Mandazi. And it's also a lesson in the effects of rising food costs. |
| 1:37.1 | And one of the members of South Korea's pop band, BTS, is starting his stint in the army. |
| 1:43.3 | The group might have been able to get out of the country's compulsory service, |
| 1:46.9 | but it was probably better PR just to get the buzz cut and get on with it. |
| 1:51.3 | Worked for Elvis, right? |
| 1:58.8 | First up, though. |
| 2:11.4 | Another day, another newsmaking tweet about Twitter. |
| 2:19.8 | I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job, wrote Elon Musk. |
| 2:23.6 | After that, I'll just run the software and servers teams. |
| 2:29.9 | Over the weekend, Mr. Musk had asked Twitter users to vote on whether he should step down as CEO, |
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