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🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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If Elon Musk owns Twitter, what are the risks and what are the opportunities? In order for Twitter to support democracy — and Musk’s goal of becoming a multi-planetary civilization — we need a radical redesign that goes beyond free speech. Note: this conversation was recorded on April 21, 2022. That was 3 days prior to the official purchase announcement, which revealed that Elon Musk will buy Twitter for $44 billion.

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0:00.0	A is a, hey Tristan. So we're going to do a quick bonus episode of your
0:04.6	undivided attention to talk about what everyone's talking about, which is Elon Musk and Twitter.
0:13.2	And obviously, you know, we can talk about the buyout and the board and all these things, but
0:16.8	what we really wanted to do was just talk about what is this about? What could it mean?
0:21.3	What is the problem with Twitter? And what are the opportunities if Elon Musk were to succeed
0:26.0	in this endeavor? Because there's a decent chance that he could succeed. And even if he doesn't,
0:29.9	I think it's important to have color on what are the real issues here? Is it really about free
0:34.4	speech or is there some more to this picture? Why is Twitter matter? Well, Twitter is different
0:42.7	than Instagram or YouTube because Twitter really is like the place where politics and journalism
0:49.1	live. Journalists construct the world, the media world, the rest of us live in. So if you
0:54.0	influence Twitter, you influence the ink that fills the pages of the media more broadly,
0:58.8	including just Twitter itself. And that is our belief, right? The Center for Humanities,
1:02.8	that the pen that is writing the history book, the ink that fills that pen is filled by
1:08.6	the algorithms of social media. I genuinely believe that tech by controlling what people are
1:13.7	feeling thinking and believing controls the outcome of everyone's decisions and the elections
1:19.4	that go. And we've seen lots of evidence of that in our podcast. And unlike other social media
1:26.8	platforms, like Instagram is not a civil war for profit machine. But Twitter is a fault line
1:32.4	finding for profit machine. Fault line finding for profit equals doom scrolling for profit equals
1:37.0	bad mental health for profit machine, right? It finds all the fault lines in society currently
1:41.4	that are most engaging. It brings them up to the top. And then it highlights them. So it's like
1:46.1	turning up the contrast in an image. So when you see it that way, is it really about free speech?
1:50.8	Now, free speech matters. We should say that. We want to live in a world. We believe in free speech
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