We're skipping ahead a couple of episodes because this story is about Elon Musk. Which means it will be out of date before you take your next breath: Mass layoffs, a financial crisis, growing voices of intolerance. And a kitchen sink. No, it isn’t the global economic crisis. It’s Twitter under its new owner, Elon Musk.

Hosted by Matt Armitage & Richard Bradbury

Produced by Richard Bradbury for BFM89.9

Further Reading: 

https://www.ft.com/content/8db7e24b-5a15-4856-b81e-a2027157aaad

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/29/elon-musk-twitter-social-media-toxic-content

https://www.statista.com/statistics/303681/twitter-users-worldwide/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/

https://johnnaughton.substack.com/p/monday-7-november-2022

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-where-did-tweeters-go-twitter-is-losing-its-most-active-users-internal-2022-10-25/

https://fortune.com/2022/11/06/elon-musk-twitter-monetization-model-can-beat-youtube-longer-posts-videos-soon/

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/elon-musk-says-twitter-will-soon-allow-users-monetize-content-make-long-form-posts

https://gizmodo.com/musk-twitter-layoffs-1849751286

https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/tv/elon-musk-parody-twitter-actors-suspended-sarah-silverman-kathy-griffin-3344565

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/04/musk-blames-activist-groups-for-major-advertisers-pausing-spending-on-twitter/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-recommends-voting-republicans-us-midterm-elections-tweet-2022-11-07/

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