Inside Elon's Twitter Takeover with Ryan Mac and Kate Conger

Factually! with Adam Conover

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter was an unmitigated catastrophe on multiple fronts, but it’s hard to ignore how it ultimately became a powerful tool in helping Donald Trump get elected. Was this Musk's plan all along back in 2022, or just another example of his infantile, buffoonish behavior with no real consequences? In this episode, recorded before the election, Adam sits down with New York Times technology reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, authors of Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, to explore Musk's disastrous acquisition and its unexpected role in shaping American politics. Find Ryan and Kate's book at factuallypod.com/books

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.0	I don't know the truth.
0:08.2	I don't know the way.
0:10.9	I don't know what to think.
0:13.6	I don't know what to say.
0:16.6	Yeah, but that's all right.
0:19.4	That's okay.
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:25.5	Hello and welcome to Factually.
0:27.3	I'm Adam Conover.
0:28.1	Thank you so much for joining me on the show again.
0:30.5	We have a fascinating interview for you today,
0:32.6	but I want to tell you something about it before we get into it.
0:35.6	See, a couple weeks back, I interviewed two incredible
0:38.8	journalists on the show, Ryan Mack and Kate Conger, about their new book, Character Limit,
0:43.7	how Elon must destroy Twitter. As you all know, I am fascinated by Elon, all the incomprehensible
0:49.6	and sometimes very stupid business decisions that he makes. And we had a really fascinating conversation
0:55.2	breaking down the twists and turns of Elon's purchase of Twitter. Here's the problem. We recorded
1:00.8	this interview before the election. And as a result, the tone and subject matter is a little bit
1:07.4	different than what I would have asked had we talked about this after the election,
1:11.5	because since the election happened, we now know that Elon buying Twitter wasn't actually
1:17.0	as stupid of a move as I thought it was initially, because Elon was able to use Twitter or
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