Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Morning Announcements

Betches

News, News Commentary, Daily News, Politics

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🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

We kick off today with Elon Musk buying Twitter yesterday for roughly 44 billion dollars and Donald Trump being fined $10,000 a day for failing to respond to a subpoena. Meanwhile, the EU announced a new set of digital regulations that will affect the US and other countries. Finland and Sweden have agreed to submit membership applications to NATO while the United States has named an ambassador to Ukraine. Finally, Mark Meadows has released 2319 text messages to the January 6th committee. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: AP News: Elon Musk to buy Twitter for $44B and take it private Axios: Trump held in contempt over documents in New York AG probe Mashable: New EU law would make Meta and Google reveal their algorithms secrets The Guardian: Sweden and Finland agree to submit Nato applications, say reports Axios: U.S. diplomats to begin returning to Ukraine this week CNN: CNN Exclusive: Mark Meadows' 2,319 text messages reveal Trump's inner circle communications before and after January 6 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Tuesday, April 26th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcement presented
0:08.0	by Betches Media.
0:09.0	I'm Sammy Sage, and this episode is sponsored by Credit Karma.
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0:19.8	Today's headlines are full of stories involving potentially major global shifts.
0:27.2	Honestly, it is a lot for a Tuesday.
0:29.9	Elon Musk reached an agreement to buy Twitter yesterday for roughly $44 billion.
0:35.2	He plans to take Twitter private and promises that the platform will take a more lenient
0:39.3	approach to content moderation and crack down on spam accounts.
0:43.5	Also, all handles will need to be spelled with at least three silent X's.
0:48.1	I just hope Twitter won't crash as frequently as his self-driving vehicles.
0:55.0	And of course, former President Trump, who I am only mentioning here as Elon's purchase
0:59.4	clearly could affect his lifetime ban from the platform, waiting on the sale on Fox News.
1:05.1	He said, quote, I am not going on Twitter.
1:07.4	I am going to say on Truth Social.
1:09.7	I hope Elon buys Twitter because he'll make improvements to it and he is a good man.
1:14.2	Sure, Jan, I think that's what they'd call an untruth.
1:20.2	While we're at it, we have another quick Trumpie headline.
1:23.0	Yesterday, a New York judge found Donald Trump in contempt of court and set in motion $10,000
1:28.2	daily fines for failing to respond to a subpoena that was issued by the state's attorney general.
1:33.4	If you've forgotten which lawsuit this is, this is the one that's investigating Malthysons
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