Twitter's new boss

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🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Elon Musk bought Twitter. Now what? Recode's Peter Kafka explains. Read Peter’s story: https://www.vox.com/recode/23041717/twitter-musk-business-plan-peter-kafka-column Today’s episode was produced by Taylor Maycan, engineered by Melissa Pons (Hemlock Creek Productions) and hosted by Adan Clark Estes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Critics are calling the creator of masterpiece.
0:02.9	Joshua, take care of it.
0:04.6	I promise.
0:05.8	It's the best film of the year.
0:08.2	Phenomenal, the best sci-fi film in ages.
0:12.0	I'm getting you out of this.
0:14.4	The creator is breathtaking and scale and vision.
0:17.4	It's mesmerizing, visually stunning,
0:20.0	and see this film on the biggest screen possible.
0:23.6	The creator, Ritipi G13, may be in a pro-create for children under 13,
0:27.8	now playing only in theaters.
0:30.0	Elon Musk is buying Twitter.
0:38.8	Just a week ago, we were talking with Liz Lepato from the verge
0:41.8	about the possibility of this happening.
0:44.4	And well, as she put it,
0:46.4	I'm sorry, this seems like a troll.
0:48.6	Like this just seems like a massive troll of a massive social media network.
0:53.6	And you know, we've already had a couple of major shareholders announced that they're
0:56.1	not interested in the deal.
0:58.1	He doesn't have the financing lined up,
0:59.9	and it just seems like a huge distraction, I think, for Twitter.
1:03.0	So I have a hard time seeing this as anything other than like,
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