What Next TBD: Senator Chris Murphy on Elon's Acquisition of Twitter

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🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The second largest investor in Twitter, after Elon Musk, is the Saudis, which raises questions about what kinds of “free speech” Musk is really committed to. But it also raises questions around national security in the U.S. Guest: Chris Murphy, U.S. Senator from Connecticut Host: Lizzie O’Leary 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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0:35.8	On October 31st, Halloween, Senator Chris Murphy sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet
0:42.5	Yellen. Murphy is a Democrat from Connecticut who sits on the Senate's Foreign Relations
0:47.6	Committee, and he had some questions about Twitter, specifically about the Saudi stake in Twitter,
0:54.7	the Kingdom Holding Company and the private office of Prince Al-Wili bin Talal
0:59.2	owned Twitter shares worth $1.89 billion.
1:04.1	They held onto that stake when Twitter went private under Elon Musk's control.
1:09.2	The Saudis are now the second largest investor in Twitter,
1:12.5	which, for Murphy, raises some potential national security concerns
1:16.1	that he would like to see evaluated by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States,
1:21.6	also known as Siphyas.
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