What Next TBD: What Elon Wants With Twitter

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🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Twitter is the platform of choice for politicians, journalists, academics, and many other agenda-setters. Twitter influences conversations that take place in newsrooms and statehouses. What happens if the company’s placed in the hands of a pugnacious, provocative plutocrat like Elon Musk? Guest: Will Oremus, tech reporter for the Washington Post Host: Seth Stevenson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.1	Lately, Will Aramis has been feeling a little queasy.
0:38.1	It's just been twists and turns and, you know, drama.
0:41.5	Like, as someone covering this, I've had the feeling that, like, let me off this ride.
0:46.6	You know, I'm feeling sick.
0:48.1	Will is a Washington Post writer who reports on the world of tech.
0:51.7	These days, that means a lot of reporting about Elon Musk and his
0:55.5	$44 billion bid to buy Twitter. Some people were shocked to hear that the richest man in the world,
1:01.8	the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, would spend that much to buy a social media company that,
1:06.6	over its history, has mostly lost money, but not will.
1:12.9	It's hard to be stunned by anything Musk does.
1:16.8	I mean, he's a guy these days who enjoys provoking.
1:21.3	He enjoys sparking conversation and outrage and trolling people.
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