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Welcome to Wired Politics Lab, a show about how tech is changing politics.

I'm Leah Fiker, the senior politics editor at Wired.

Twitter is officially dead.

That is, if it wasn't already.

Last week, Twitter.com became X.com, the final step in a rebranding effort that the company's

owner, Elon Musk, announced last year.

The change marks the end of an era.

Twitter used to call itself a global town square, but since Musk's takeover in 2022, the platform

has welcomed back formerly banned Nazis and white supremacists.

It's dissolved its trust in safety council, which advised Twitter on how to address

problems like hate speech and child exploitation, and it's laid off thousands of people, including

many on its content moderation team. The result? Advertisers have left, users have left,

and what remains on the site is a cesspool of disinformation and conspiracies. So today on the

show, we dissect the end of Twitter and what it means for the politicians

who use it.

And later, we're going to talk about the last good place to connect with others with the help

of technology, the live video stream portal connecting Dublin in New York.

I'm joined today by David Gilbert and McKenna Kelly, two senior reporters at Wired to talk

about all of this. McKenna, David two senior reporters at Wired to talk about all of this.

McKenna, David, welcome back to Wired Politics Lab. How's it going? Hello. It's going good.

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