Flipping The Bird

Published: Nov. 18, 2022, 5 p.m.

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, there has been nothing short of crisis \u2014 leading to massive layoffs and lost advertisers. On this week\u2019s On the Media, what this chaos means for activists worldwide who used the platform as a public square. Plus, how political predictions distort coverage of elections.\xa0

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1. James Fallows\xa0[@JamesFallows], writer of\xa0the \u201cBreaking the News\u201d newsletter on Substack, on the political press' obsession with telling the future and the narratives that have a chokehold on elections coverage. Listen.

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2. Zo\xeb Schiffer\xa0[@ZoeSchiffer], Managing Editor of Platformer, on the mass exodus of employees from one of the world's most significant social media sites. Listen.

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3. Avi Asher-Schapiro\xa0[@AASchapiro], tech reporter for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, on the impact of Musk's leadership on Twitter users around the world. Listen.

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4. Clive Thompson\xa0[@pomeranian99], journalist and author of\xa0Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, on the website many are fleeing to amid chaos at Twitter. Listen.