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What Next TBD: Musk's War on Free Speech

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk is suing Media Matters for reporting that advertisers’ content was showing up right next to posts from newly reinstated Nazis on X, something X’s CEO said was impossible. Media Matters is based in D.C, and X is headquartered in California - so why did Musk choose to file the suit in Texas? Guest: Liz Dye, columnist at Above the Law, Substacks as Law and Chaos Pod, co-hosts the podcast Opening Arguments. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Then there are days when you're Big Arch hungry for McDonald's.

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You'll get to know the difference.

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New Big Arch for Big McDonald's hunger.

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Until 9th of September, from 11 a.m.,

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participating restaurants only, subject to availability.

0:30.1

Liz, why don't you go ahead and just introduce yourself, say, who you are and what you do?

0:36.6

Hi, I'm Liz Dye. I am a columnist at Above the Law. I write the substack Law and Chaos Pod,

0:41.2

and I am a co-host of the opening arguments podcast.

0:49.6

Liz is also a lawyer herself, though she doesn't practice anymore. I wanted to bring her on the show to talk about lawsuits, specifically Elon Musk and lawsuits, because this year he's been embroiled in a lot sued by

0:57.7

former Twitter employees or people who say they've been defamed on Twitter now X plus ongoing

1:04.4

disputes with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

1:08.8

and of course Musk has filed his own suits,

1:12.4

something that began even before he actually ran X.

1:16.3

Well, so he walked in the door

1:18.1

after being forced to buy Twitter against his will.

1:21.2

He offered 5420, which was like the world's most expensive weed joke.

1:25.1

And then he tried to back out of the deal. And Twitter, Twitter's

1:29.6

board couldn't let him back out of the deal. That would be a breach of fiduciary duty to reject an offer

1:34.6

for the shares, which was like 30% above what they were trading at. They had no choice but to sue him

1:40.4

to make him go through with his offer. And they hired this white shoe law firm named

1:46.0

Wachtel Lipton. And Wachtel Lipton did in fact force Musk to go through with the deal. And when

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