Free Speech in the Age of Musk: Twitter’s Uncertain Future

During their latest episode of the VALUE: After Hours Podcast, Taylor, Carlisle, and Brewster discussed Free Speech in the Age of Musk: Twitter’s Uncertain Future. Here’s an excerpt from the episode:

Tobias: How about Twitter? Musk has bitten off a lot with Tesla boring company and so on. Is Twitter going to make it? I see that advertising is done a lot.

Bill: Yeah. I don’t know why you would ever want to own a social media platform. It is the single best way to get hated. It’s insane to me. I know people will be like, “Oh, for free speech. Okay.”

Jake: History is pretty replete with successful businessmen buying newspapers, different mouthpieces to help control the narrative. It’s been a time honored tradition, actually. So I’m not–

Tobias: Do you control Twitter? I guess you do. I guess there is some control there.

Jake: You can nudge policies, right?

Tobias: Yeah, that’s true.

Bill: If Twitter files, I would argue that there’s a ton of control there. Now it is out of the government and he– [crosstalk]

Tobias: Beyond owning it. He already had the biggest Twitter account on there, him and Kim Kardashian. He had that for free. Like, you don’t have to lose money in it.

Bill: Yeah. I suppose he has a principled stand on what he thinks about free speech.

Jake: I can respect that.

Bill: Yeah. I wouldn’t want to be an LP.

Jake: No. Yeah. Larry Ellison, is he’s in for a billion in there, I think.

Bill: that’s what I saw. Yeah. You can afford to lose it. That’s a nice life. That’s pretty wild.

Jake: Yeah.

You can find out more about the VALUE: After Hours Podcast here – VALUE: After Hours Podcast. You can also listen to the podcast on your favorite podcast platforms here:

Apple Podcasts