lawsuits against us. and right now, dominion voting system has filed a 1.6 billion dollar defamation lawsuit against false fox news, because of false stories there, that caused death threats to dominion voting systems employees. so, this world that he thinks exists of free speech, he does not understand. it all media organizations have the threat of libel lawsuits and defamation lawsuits. we have a fact checking department at the new york times. so, speech has consequences. and i agree, again, with representative kenyatta, hate is incredibly dangerous. hate causes violence. and maybe he will learn. but it s just been an incredibly disappointing tenure so far by elon musk. it raises a number of interesting questions for me, raquel. one of them is the fact that it looks like musk is essentially turning twitter into truth social two point oh. it s this kind of
exchange and using them to embolden and lift up the worst impulses of the american people. so, david, musk briefly spoke with several tech journalists on a twitter spaces stream before abruptly leaving. he just got up and left after being revealed grilled on the reporter bans. twitter spaces was lever later shut down for several hours after that. it kind of feels like there was an obvious trump comparison going on here. what are your thoughts? i think that he does not quite understand. we are sitting here we are lucky to be speaking to a large audience of people, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people. i work at the new yorker. when we publish a story, all of us faced the challenge of defamation lawsuits. and if we smear someone and defame them, they can file lawsuits against us. and right now, dominion voting system has filed a 1. 6 billion dollar defamation lawsuit against false fox news, because of false stories there, that caused death threats to dominion voting sys