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What Next TBD: Inside Trump’s Twitter Clone

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Trump's Truth Social network was supposed to be the right's answer to Twitter. What happens to the company if Elon takes over? Guest: Drew Harwell, reporter for the Washington Post Host: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.7

Take a guess. How many times do you think Elon Musk has thrown you off your deadline?

0:37.2

Oh God. 20, 30, 40, and that's just me. Like across the newsroom, probably thousands.

0:41.1

Drew Harwell covers technology for the Washington Post. No one has been as much of a deadline nukeer as, you know, compared to him as Donald Trump.

0:49.3

Like, he and Donald Trump always throw us off our game.

0:52.1

I was asking Drew that question, because this week, Elon Musk blew up our deadlines a few

0:57.2

times. First, when he said that if he owns Twitter, he'll probably let Donald Trump back on.

1:03.3

And then on Friday morning, when he tweeted that the deal was on hold, but that he was still

1:07.8

committed to it. A deal being on hold, by the way, is not an actual legal term.

1:13.7

It's hard to know right now how committed Musk really is, but he certainly seems to think that a

1:19.4

Twitter he owns should have the former president on it. Trump was kicked off for inciting violence

1:25.3

with his tweets about January 6th.

1:32.3

While Musk isn't alone in saying Trump's ban shouldn't be permanent, if he owns the company,

1:34.6

his voice is the only one that matters.

1:40.7

Drew says he was expecting this, ever since Musk started musing aloud about free speech.

1:45.2

Just sort of questioning all of their content moderation decisions, kind of taking this sort of pro-Trump stance, even if it wasn't specifically pro-Trump. But just that, who is Twitter

1:52.4

to say what people can speak about online? Who gave them the right to suppress anybody's free speech? So for him to kind of bring that up this

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