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Today, Explained

Twitter’s new Musk

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk and Twitter have reached a deal. Recode’s Peter Kafka and Shirin Ghaffary explain what it means for the business of Twitter, and for free speech on the platform. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram, who also edited. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Previously, on Today Explained.

0:02.0

So I think that there's like a certain amount of chaos that has now been injected into

0:08.2

an RID chaotic system courtesy of Elon Musk.

0:12.7

And one of the things that I think is really interesting is that this could play out in

0:16.2

a variety of ways, including, you know, some way that I haven't foreseen.

0:23.2

The head on Today Show.

0:25.0

We know Elon Musk wants to own Twitter and that will happen in the next six months or

0:28.9

so barring unforeseen, Musk-like circumstances.

0:32.5

We know he says he's buying it because he wants to protect free speech and he would

0:36.6

like less content moderation on Twitter.

0:41.0

Having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important

0:49.0

to the future of civilization.

1:02.0

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1:06.9

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1:11.5

was all wrapped up, but it was so obvious where it was obviously because nothing shaped

1:14.7

like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so, I guess, for that was a life

1:18.2

change and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so I feel like that one

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changed real low.

1:23.6

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