What’s Really Behind Elon Musk’s Twitter Chaos

Will Elon Musk finally be what kills Twitter? For years, the social network has been an extremely popular center for news and public conversation. But it’s been in a chaotic transition phase since Tesla CEO Elon Musk completed his purchase of the company. Elon’s transition to Twitter CEO has come with immediate changes, like mass employee layoffs and new features designed to monetize the platform. But changes like this one fundamentally alter Twitter’s landscape. The current state of Twitter is evidence of an irresolvable tension at the heart of the internet: the desire for openness and free speech coming up against the demands of shareholders and profitability.

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00:00 What's the latest Twitter drama?
01:38 Does Elon even have a plan? All the chaos!
05:09 Why we need Twitter
07:55 Free Speech and The Internet...
10:10 Where is Twitter actually headed?

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