![]() The Twitter files had to do with a New York Post story from the 2020 election about Hunter Biden's laptop. And I think that's sort of very much in keeping with this conservative world view, that it should not be up to platforms to decide who can participate or sort of set the terms by which they might participate.Īnother way that we've seen Elon Musk's more conservative views manifest is he has lately been having a lot of fun with what he's calling the Twitter files. So, you know, one of his first moves was to restore more than 60,000 accounts of people who had been banned from Twitter for breaking its rules. You know, he has adopted a lot of the views that have become mainstream among Republicans such as that social networks are censoring too much content, that free speech is at risk, that there are sort of too much deference shown to people who say that they're experiencing harassment or abuse or hate speech. NEWTON: Well, I think that in a lot of ways, he is a fairly conventional conservative. GROSS: Do you think Twitter is starting to reflect Elon Musk's politics? And what are his politics? And more than anything else, I think he's given the impression that rather than operating according to some set plan, he's really managing Twitter more by whims and what seems to him to be a good idea in the moment. ![]() He has implemented a bunch of ideas and then quickly reversed himself. He has now eliminated close to three-quarters of the staff. And yet from the moment that he stepped into that job, that seems to be exactly what he decided to do. And while it clearly needed to evolve, there was sort of no pressing need to blow it up and start over. It made about $5 billion last year, has hundreds of millions of active users. And the Twitter that he inherited, while it had its challenges, was not a company in crisis. I had not paid a lot of attention to what Musk was doing at Tesla and SpaceX, but as you note, he was having a lot of success with those companies. Are you surprised by what kind of leader he's turned out to be as the owner of Twitter?ĬASEY NEWTON: You know, I really am. ![]() He's making decisions that are driving away Twitter users. Twitter is losing money and advertisers under his leadership. Twitter is showing a different side of him - indecisive, making decisions then retracting them. SpaceX and Tesla have been considered such big success stories, and credit has gone to Elon Musk. We recorded our interview yesterday.Ĭasey Newton, welcome back to FRESH AIR. From 2013 until 2020, when Newton started Platformer, he reported on tech for The Verge. He also co-hosts the tech podcast "Hard Fork" with New York Times tech journalist Kevin Roose. ![]() Newton is an independent tech journalist who covers the intersection of technology and democracy for his newsletter, Platformer, which is hosted by Substack. My guest, Casey Newton, says Musk has been remaking Twitter in his own image. Some of the responders may have been bots. Musk offered to reinstate Trump on Twitter after polling Twitter users about whether to do it. The number of content moderators has been slashed. But those ideas were met with widespread opposition. He's floated ideas for subscription services and for charging a fee to verify that your account is really yours. He's fired executives, cut the number of full-time employees in half, and then realized maybe he'd gone too far and tried to hire back some people he just terminated. Musk has made and then withdrawn decisions including trying to retract his offer to buy Twitter. Ever since Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, bought Twitter for $44 billion in late April, Twitter has been in chaos. Haberdashery of New England opened a Haberdashery Off Price clothing store at Freeport Village Station on Main Street.This is FRESH AIR. He has been at Berman & Simmons for five years. ![]() Northern Light is the first in New England to achieve stage six.Ĭhristopher Boots, an attorney at Berman & Simmons, has completed the Maine State Bar Association Leadership Academy. The designation measures the success of analytics strategy and competency. Northern Light Health has achieved stage six designation for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity. Erik Nelson is an associate professor of economics at Bowdoin College. Toby Gabranski is the founder of Tobias Gabranski/Architects who has lived and worked in Bath for 15 years. Bath Housing and Development Corporation added three new members to the board: Roberta Jordan was the school manager at the K-8 Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb for 20 years and has been a librarian at the Patten Free Library and land protection specialist at The Nature Conservancy. ![]()
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