Well, I'm not going to comment on a specific transaction.

What I can tell you is a general matter, no matter who owns or runs Twitter, the president

has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms, that power

they have over our everyday lives, has long argued that tech platforms must be held accountable

for the harms they cause.

He has been a strong supporter

of fundamental reforms to achieve that goal, including reforms to Section 230, enacting antitrust

reforms, requiring more transparency and more. And he's encouraged that there's bipartisan

interest in Congress. Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the Muckreg podcast.

I'm Jared Y. Sexton.

I'm here, as always, with my loyal co-host and partner, Nick Houseman.

Nick, how are you?

How was your weekend?

It was fine, you know, just fine and just struggling to keep up with everything that's going

on out there in the world and on the NBA landscape.

So, but I'm hanging in there.

Well, the good news is that politics and culture of just pretty much pause, nothing's

going on, everything's great.

It's not like a space mad techno messiah just dropped $44 dollars to buy Twitter, which has effectively become

the public square of the United States of America. It's not like that's occurring right now.

No, or that he's talking about boring tunnels underneath the entire United States of America,

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