Twitter's Elon Musk Era with Kara Swisher

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

What in the heck is going on at Twitter since Elon Musk took over? From growing concerns about disinformation on the social network, to changes to how once coveted blue check marks are granted, there’s a lot to unpack. We couldn’t think of a better person to help make sense of it all than Kara Swisher, who has interviewed Musk numerous times and has covered tech for decades. Swisher is also host of the podcasts “On with Kara Swisher, “Pivot,” and is co-founder of the technology website Recode. Swisher points out that while Musk is very innovative, in her view, he’s been a “chaos monkey.” She joins Chris to discuss how the world’s richest man (as of this posting) is running Twitter, staff shakeups, growing competition in the social media space and more.

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0:00.0	What has to happen is there's got to be people with a difference of opinion and in the case of Twitter
0:04.3	It's descended into a little more chaos because the owner is a little chaotic. He's a chaos monkey
0:09.4	And so you want a place where you can debate someone you don't agree with and there's plenty in a civil way and have a really great
0:16.3	Conversation that's what you're really seeking out
0:18.3	Hello, and welcome to Why is this happening with me your host Chris A's
0:30.5	Well today is a day that we are going to
0:33.6	fully embrace the name of this podcast which originated out of a desire
0:38.2	By myself to sometimes just want to have a conversation where I talked to someone who's super knowledgeable about why something's happening particularly something that I
0:46.2	I haven't gotten to cover on the show and has been like in the pro somewhat of the periphery of my attention
0:51.4	It's been going on and I kind of like read about it and then I'm like what the hell is going on over there and why is this happening?
0:57.6	We exactly see with why is this happening so I as I think people listen to podcast no regular listeners of podcast
1:06.2	No, I am a very obsessive
1:08.9	Addicted user Twitter. It's not something I'm proud of but it is what it is
1:12.0	You have probably heard that Elon Musk the world's arguably richest man depends on the valuation of various enterprises on a given day
1:19.0	Purchased Twitter and then is just acting like a complete
1:23.4	Maniac over there in a way that I think everyone is like what is going on?
1:27.8	And so I just haven't touched the story but I want to get into it with Cara Swisher who I can't think of a better person to talk to about it
1:34.2	She's a journalist. She's covered business on the internet for decades
1:37.5	She's hosted the podcast on with Cara Swisher and pivot co-founder of the technology website recode
1:43.2	She's been on with pod before if I have one person to talk to about what the hell Elon Musk is doing in Twitter
1:48.9	It is Cara Swisher. So Cara welcome to the program. Thank you. I think you should scream. Why is this happening?
1:54.5	That's what you should do every week. That's what I would do
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