What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Elon Musk’s Bully Pulpit
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Since Elon Musk took over Twitter - now X - in 2022, he’s increasingly used it to push his conservative views. A suit against a non-profit brand safety group of advertisers and an exclusive interview with former President Trump show that Elon was never interested in keeping Twitter as a town square, but rather, a soapbox for him to push his political agenda.
Guest: Nitish Pahwa, associate writer for business and tech at Slate
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| 0:42.0 | Just in the last 48 hours, X's owner, Elon Musk, has posted |
| 0:47.2 | advertisements for his other businesses, insults against CNN for its so-called liberal bias, and an AI-generated video of himself |
| 0:57.5 | and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, disco dancing, through the streets streets to staying alive. |
| 1:05.0 | No time to talk. |
| 1:06.0 | Music Lyle when they want to be getting around |
| 1:10.0 | since Musk took over Twitter back in 2022, the platform has seen a radical shift, one that's best |
| 1:17.6 | symbolized by a stroll through Musk's feed. Content moderation has been gutted. |
| 1:23.0 | Watchdogs say hate speech is running rampant. |
| 1:25.0 | And through it all, there's Elon Musk, |
| 1:28.0 | posing about the dangers of immigration and transgender people, |
| 1:31.0 | and the |
| 1:35.0 | and silencing of conservative voices. Naturally, that's made advertisers nervous. |
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