Elon Musk's Twitter Deal

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 25, 2022
Elon Musk has reportedly struck a deal to buy Twitter. Faiz Siddiqui, The Washington Post tech reporter, and Nahema Marchal, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Zurich and a communication scholar working on the relationship between digital technology, politics and democracy, talk about the billionaire's motivations, and what the new owner will mean for the social media giant.

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