Twitter Is Collapsing
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Oh dear oh dear. You might have thought Elon Musk's take over of Twitter would be disastrous - but did you think it would be this bad? There's now every chance that a medium which, whatever its flaws, has become a critical plank of our social and democratic infrastructure could collapse. Here's the story of the catastrophe - and why it has very, very serious implications for all of us.
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| 0:20.6 | Who would have thought it? |
| 0:21.6 | Elon Musk's takeover twitter is an absolute catastrophe. |
| 0:26.3 | Now to be fair, I didn't think it would be this catastrophic |
| 0:29.6 | quite so quickly. |
| 0:30.6 | Now when I was a kid, I used to run around Manchester's |
| 0:34.3 | museum of science and industry just randomly pressing |
| 0:36.5 | buttons on machines to see what would happen. |
| 0:38.9 | This is essentially what Elon Musk is doing to what has become |
| 0:42.8 | whether you're comfortable with this fact or not. |
| 0:44.7 | A crucial part of our public, our social, |
| 0:47.6 | indeed our democratic infrastructure. |
| 0:49.5 | Let's have a little think about what's happened |
| 0:51.2 | since he took over twitter. |
| 0:52.4 | So he finds it CEO, it's board of directors |
| 0:54.8 | making himself the sole director. |
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