Lawfare Daily: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter with Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
On April 14, 2022, New York Times technology reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac woke up to a stunning four-word tweet from Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter account: \u201cI made an offer.\u201d Having long covered the technology and social media beat, they read Musk\u2019s terse post as the \u201cunbelievable but inevitable culmination of two storylines we had pursued for a decade as journalists in Silicon Valley.\u201d
On today\u2019s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien spoke to Conger and Mac about the cloak-and-dagger corporate dealings that preceded the offer, as well as the drama that unfolded after the ink dried, which they reported in detail in their new book, \u201cCharacter Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter.\u201d They discussed Musk\u2019s predecessors\u2014Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal\u2014as well as the platform\u2019s troubled history of content moderation, and why the billionaire wanted it all for himself.
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