policies, let anything go on twitter, remove some of the rules of the road. you think that s not likely? well, i don t know. i just think he has to persuade people. he is not king of twitter. he is a board member of 12 board members and then there is a management staff. some people might agree with him, some people night not but this is a public company. he can t just decree things, he can do it on twitter and create lots of pressure and a lot of fun and some of the ideas are good and some of the ideas are odd, but that s okay. so who cares essentially? that s what twitter is all about. when you are up close and personal with these big tech billionaires, do you think they have the best interest of the public at heart? you know, what are your impressions of these guys? and they are all guys. they have to. i mean, you know, i think there is this idea that at which timer is a public square that it must be protected at all costs, it s a very small company actually when you compare it
let s bring in oliver darcy and claire atkinson and in washington ckara swisher. kara, first to you. you have interacted with elon musk many times over the years. what are his intentions for twitter? he likes to tweet so that s what he s doing right now. i mean, i think his intention it s an interesting question. everyone thinks he has full power over twitter, he is one board member of many. he s just being elon which is to do things like polling, he just tweeted that they should take the w out of twitter which you can get that joke. this is just the way he operates which is to be, you know, hey, look at me, these are some ideas, making loud noises about things and that s his way of influencing people, but he doesn t actually have an ability to make any real changes without a lot of people involved. so the questions, the hopes and the fears that he s going to come in and overhaul twitter s
lockdown. has the rest of the world moved on? and an interview you will only see here, abigail disney responding to right wing media attacks against her family s company. what she has to say coming up. first media ownership changes that affect all of us. elon musk the world s richest man now has power over one of the world s most important communication platforms on the planet. he became the social media giant s top shareholder, he controls a big stake of twitter and is calling out users with large followings to tweet more. he s writing is twitter dying even though he invested a ton of money into the company. he has been posting a lot, trying to poll users about twitter. it s confusing and chaotic, but maybe that s his point. he tweeted a photo of himself smoking charge with the caption twitter s next board meeting is going to be lit. it is. what does it mean when someone like elon musk has power over a ma moth communications platform?
memes, trolls. elon musk uses twitter i think if you had to pick someone who uses twitter in the style of trump, elon musk would be the guy. kara, what do you make of dean s message to the newsroom saying report more and tweet less. he can do whatever he wants. i m not an employee of the new york times just so you know. i know. i don t know, i guess he is the editor, he can say whatever he wants. is that a smart strategy for news rooms, for journalists do they use twitter too much? people are on twitter a little much, like oliver and myself and claire, i don t know if claire is quite as addicted as we are and, you, brian, should get off of twitter a little bit more. i guess. i don t know. i m not an editor and there is a reason i m not an editor because i would say tweet all you want, whatever you want. he s head of the newsroom. i think the idea is are they embarrassing themselves in some way if they re beat reporters. these are good questions that news organizations sho
guys elon is in a class by himself, he is a prankster and he can be cruel sometimes, he can be ridiculous, he can say all kinds of crazy things, he s also very funny. he s an unusual character, most are much more controlled, he is i always called him the id of the internet. i m not so sure why they have to have our public interests at heart, they are not elected officials. i think the problem is they re so rich and so wealthy excuse me, rich and wealthy, that s ridiculous, i m losing my mind they are so wealth would hey that they can have influence in certain areas and that one or two people control these platforms is i think probably a problem for a lot of people. that s the overarching issue. power. maybe musk will bring some real important innovations to twitter. claire, there s all this brouhaha about having an edit button for twitter, this has been debated for years. why is that a big controversy? facebook had an edit button? frankly i don t get it. i sometimes mak