What Elon Musk's Twitter takeover means for the social media platform
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk borrowed billions to buy Twitter. Now he has to figure out how to pay all that back. But there’s just one problem. Nilay Patel and Sen. Ed Markey join Anthony Brooks.
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| 0:18.8 | Hi, Anthony Brooks. |
| 0:23.5 | And this is on point. |
| 0:25.0 | When you're the richest man in the world, |
| 0:26.7 | you pretty much do what you want and buy what you want. |
| 0:29.9 | For Elon Musk, that means owning a private space company, |
| 0:33.0 | an electric car company, and most recently, |
| 0:36.0 | shelling out $44 billion to buy Twitter. |
| 0:39.5 | So how's that last purchase working out? |
| 0:42.2 | Well, according to my guest this hour, |
| 0:44.0 | Twitter is a disaster clown car company |
| 0:47.3 | that will ultimately destroy Musk's reputation. |
| 0:51.1 | As Neelya Patel writes in the verge, |
| 0:53.4 | you screwed up really good kiddo, |
| 0:55.9 | though Patel uses a different word |
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