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It's Complicated

What's So Complicated About Consent Decrees, Destroying Twitter, and FTX

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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0:00.0

M-S-S-W media.

0:10.0

So Asha, Esoa-S-W. So, Aisha, E. L.Muss seems to be screwing up Twitter. Is he in any legal trouble?

0:14.3

Eh.

0:17.3

It's complicated.

0:20.3

I'm Asha Rangappa. I'm a former FBI Special Agent and teach national security law at Yale University and I'm a legal and national security analyst.

0:31.0

And I'm Renata Mariati. I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a legal

0:36.8

analyst. And we're here to help you understand topics that can't be boiled down to a sound bite or a tweet.

0:45.4

So Asha, Elon Musk, we talked about him last time.

0:49.5

He seems to have really screwed up Twitter.

0:52.1

I don't think he understands exactly what he was buying.

0:55.6

I think one of the biggest things that he messed up was creating this like Twitter Bluth feature that basically gave everyone a blue check mark

1:05.8

for eight bucks not sure what he was thinking there but you know Twitter Twitter

1:11.6

was a total mess for a period of time

1:15.0

until he put that on hold with all sorts of

1:18.0

famous people, companies getting impersonated.

1:22.0

I got followed by George Washington.

1:26.0

I know there's all sorts of more colorful, you know,

1:31.0

spoofs and fakes out there that had blue check marks for a period of time.

1:36.4

You know you wrote a piece about this recently I know we were talking about it when you were

1:39.7

in the process of writing.

1:41.7

What was what's that about? Yeah and by the way God and Jesus also had

1:46.1

blue check marks for for a little while I'm not sure if those are down yet. My piece was

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