their worry is more than elon musk. it is the population of people that believe outright falsehoods. can you talk about that a little bit? guest: i didn't hear the entirety of the question but i got the gist. this is a challenge not only for social media companies but for the world where what do you do in an age where everything, including truths is doubted. i think this is a challenging time for the united states and people in other countries where there is so much division and disagreement and you don't complicate the matters when you have these tools of influence that have different mechanisms than we have seen before. these are new companies, twitter is 16 years old and we are in this environment where our american ideology is being altered by fall speech. what you do when these software algorithms make viral information that might be untrue but interesting. we know that lies can spread more quickly than facts and undermines that facts can be the curative's for lies. what can we believe and how do we win this one? -

this is bloomberg. ♪ >> this is elon musk being elon musk. >> this is so elon musk. >> him doing what he does, stirring up the pot. >> i think he's angling for a cheaper price. >> he didn't have a problem raising. >> i would want to do anything i could to get out of the deal of the price he set. the price makes no sense. >> it is looking increasingly unlikely to be the final bid to the extent there is an acquisition. >> twitter was not as mispriced as other equities have been. >> when it is ready to be acquired, i think elon is attempting to lower the price. emily: welcome back to "bloomberg technology." i'm emily chang in san francisco. sticking to that story and elon musk. putting his deal to buy twitter "temporarily on hold," later clarifying he's committed to the acquisition. ed ludlow has the latest. we just heard reid hoffman, a friend of elon musk, we think he's serious and has a plan. ed: he thinks he's serious, i heard he has a plan. a lot of doubt in the voices across the market. twitter stock down 9.7%. the biggest drop since october. the reason we are following the share p

laura wright is on the elon musk and twitter story. dani: we have also got charlie wells looking at the closures and we are joined by the latest for ukraine tensions. shanghai is -- has confined citizens to lockdowns for weeks. there saying that they're getting the transmission under control. where joined by juliette saly and it is all about that tech rally in asia. juliette: it is. let's talk with what we are talking about in shanghai. how quickly can the city wrap up its growth engine and ramp up again do ease these strict lockdowns? we're looking at shanghai metro passenger volume. it is at a flat line and much weaker than what we saw than when we saw the pandemic hit. we could expect that to start ramping up as people continue to get about their daily business. it is a different story from what we're hearing in new york where they're getting towards a higher level of the virus and they could be reinstating those mask mandates indoors. let's look at the impact on markets because it is all about the reopening and we are seeing a thir

the twitter and tweets from elon musk. francine: i wonder if spam is unwanted publicity or unwelcome to robots. tom: there's a lot of questions he wants answered. switching focus, the planned secession of finland and sweden to nato as --president erdogan says he will not allow the nordic nations to join the alliance. ukraine is calling on european leaders to approve its candidacy status at the eu summit next month. the foreign minister spoke exclusively to bloomberg's maria tadeo. >> this is really the moment for europe to take itself to the next level, to legally enter ukraine into the eu integration project by granting the candidacy status. tom: joining us now is -- this seems to be a major span thrown into the works by turkey. we heard from the nato secretary-general in the last few days saying that turks will sign off on this. does not look that way now. >> certainly after his comments on friday, the turkish president seems to be digging in. the view from nato states is it will be fine. turkey is saying hang on, we are

ross: elon musk and i are in the same camp. we are both x democrats and i am never going to be a republican, because i cannot stand them. but you know, i have become an independent voter appeared in ethic what elon musk was saying is true. i have worked very, very hard to get joe biden in as president and im a big believer in the values that the democrats represent and they have achieved nothing. they have achieved none of the agenda that they set out to achieve and they have really disappointed big supporters like myself and especially entrepreneurs who they have attacked and constantly said that we do not pair our fair share, when we do. so it's just -- they have pushed -- you know, successful osborne oars out of the democratic party. and i'm out of them too. emily: jack dorsey, the era of jack dorsey is officially over. we knew this was coming, nor formal role of the company now, but we can assume he will have influenced or his tweets will carry some influence. what you think is the significance of jack dorsey leaving? ross:

now to a quick update on elon musk's bid for twitter. apollo plans to lead a billion dollars in financing for the bid . this adds to the long list of unusual investors musk has secured in his deal to buy twitter ranging from larry ellison to andreessen horowitz to finance. coming up, what do drake, lebron james and bono have in common? in addition to all being superstars, they are backing a home solar energy company. we will have more on that business, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: time now for this week's technomic's statement. rooftop solar is a surging sector but only 4% of homes feature solar panels. however, investors from lebron james to arnold schwarzenegger believe palmetto can turn that around. i want to bring in palmetto founder and ceo, chris kemper. how have you gotten folks like drake, bono and arnold schwarzenegger on board? chris: thank you for having me. these type of investors see what we have been working on since 2009, which is climate change and energy independence is a big problem. for palmetto, unlike peers in

elon musk's shadow loomed large. the ceo addressed concerns about misinformation and bias more broadly. >> we are constantly improving our product, our policies and our processes in order to earn more trust. we believe twitter is a place for different voices and perspectives to be heard. our rules are enforced objectively on content and our policies remain neutral to political identity and ideology. emily: our own ed ludlow joining us, who has been following the meeting all day. no vote on the elon musk deal, but just how big was his shadow over this meeting today? ed: shareholders found a way to get the references in there. there was one proposal from arjuna capital on having one board member with a high level of expertise in human and civil rights. the point arjuna made was had twitter had a better track record in human civil rights, they would have a better track record on freedom of expression and we would not be where we are with world's richest man trying to take the company private to fix the issue of freedom

today we are going to look at three grand plans, the first comes from elon musk. twitter has become kind of the de facto town square, so it's just really important that people have the — both the reality and the perception that they are able to speak freely within the bounds of the law. since elon musk said that, he's had a multi—billion dollar offer for twitter accepted. we'll unpack what that means. the next plan we are going to look at is one that's come to a shuddering halt. this was just a few weeks ago. cnn is an icon of the cable and satellite age. but now cable is competing with streaming and there isn't a streaming subscription service for tv news in the united states. so if you were creating a news product from scratch in 2022, how would you build it? that's one of the questions, one of the starting points for cnn+. it's the biggest bet any company has made in the news streaming world. cnn spent millions of dollars on its new streaming service, cnn+. but within weeks, it had been canned. and as that was stopping, well, rupert murdoch was starting som

>> elon musk is absolutely right. we have to recognize, i've said this for years on your show that china is the true threat to america, not republicans and democrats. we need to stop the infighting and be realistic recognize china is country of 1.5 billion where people work their fingers to a bone, we're a country of 330 million, a significant portion refuse to go to school, refuse to go to work, vocational jobs. frankly in a country where identity politics replaced patriotism. this cannot stand in america. we need to change our ways or china will take us down. elizabeth: because that's the point. we're about america. we're about liberty and freedom and you know, really, really helping people in all walks of life get ahead. now we have this other poisonous conversation going on in d.c. your final word, ford? >> look i believe in the american worker but i will say this when it comes to republicans and democrats, they are too focused on destroying each other. not focused on strengthening our democracy because free speec

elon musk proposed to take over twitter but now it is on hold. he announced the delay in a tweet, it has to do with details supporting the calculation of spam and fake accounts make up less than 5% of twitters users. the senate is postponing a final passage of an aid package after rand paul refused to allow the vote. he is demanding lawmakers added a provision to the point, and official oversight powers. they will vote next week. jerome powell has reaffirmed his plan for raising interest rates to fight inflation. in interview with the marketplace radio program, they are likely to raise rates by half a percentage of each of the next two meetings. they are considering a 75 basis point move. chinese officials accept a timeline for ending one of the longest and most punishing lockdowns for the pandemic. shanghai will stand out community right for coronavirus and start opening the city may 20. it has been in place almost six weeks. shares of robin hood are soaring in premarket trading. cryptocurrency billionaire sam has taken a 7.6% stake in the troub

elon musk. he is trying to line up even more equity financing so he can do away with the entirety of the margin loan portion of the deal to buy twitter. there could be some relief on paper for tesla but still down .8%. emily: another date, another twist to the elon musk story. i want to talk about apple falling again, behind saudi aramco as the world's most viable company. our guest heads-up a team, so is this a changing of the guard or a momentary blip? >> will, not much is happening if you take a step back and look at it in the perspective of the world i'd look at on a daily basis. it is down 20% from the highs, 17% from the average value of the last 18 months. look at tesla, down. amazon, down 30%. google down 30%. apple on the relative basis is doing quite all right. and there are a lot of reasons for that. they have done very well. they have grown to the last five years, earnings, more than 20%, and they have been very well in the recent context through the pandemic, through inflationary pr

in this case it's all about elon musk, and that's what elon musk likes which is attention on him and his companies and his thoughts and this is what he wants to buy. he's rich and wants to buy it. >> and he's getting the attention. kara, dan, thanks very much. >>> roundtable is next. thanks . >>> roundtable is next. - i like him! - c'mon ? nooooo... nooooo... quick, the quicker picker upper! bounty picks up messes quicker and is 2x more absorbent, so you can use less. bounty, the quicker picker upper. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuroscientist. and i love the science behind neuriva plus. unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva plus fuels six key indicators of brain performance. more brain performance? yes, please! neuriva. think bigger. (vo) verizon is going ultra! with 5g ultra wideband in many more cities, you get up to 10x the speed at no extra cost. plus six premium entertainment subscriptions, included! like disney+, music, gaming, and more! (mom) delightful. (vo) saving you over $350 dollars a year. and for a limited time get a 5g phone on us! no

so those are the details of how elon musk has ended up in the situation. vivian, let's bring you in. there will be people listening thinking, ok, looks like he's going to be in charge. how's my experience of twitter going to change? for example, he talked about sharing the algorithm so we all understand why twitter is showing a certain tweets more than others. in a practical sense, if me, you or anyone else opens up twitter what do you think the big shift would be? we don't really know. he's made very limited comments so far about what he plans to do about content moderation. content moderation is the practice of a platform deciding what to leave out, what to take down, what to take down, what to amplify and what to supress. but based on his limited remarks and based on some of his tweets in the last few days, just as personal behaviour twitter, i think it seems like he is maybe going to open up, make it more open some of the — eliminate some of the decisions that previous twitter management has made, which would give rise to a lot of ugliness on twitter

elon musk could make that happen through his deal. emily: musk said he would be twitter's ceo for a time, but is it possible that jack dorsey comes back as ceo as well? sarah: that is possible and it is one of the top names that is speculated. elon musk running it or a few what -- for a few months may be something that is trying to get investors on board with the plan. he has a bit of a midas touch when it comes to the things that he says are going to work out. he certainly has lofty plans that he has put forth for twitter, but he has this cult of personality that when he takes charge of something, people listen and come on board. maybe he should convince jack to come back and run twitter or maybe he has somebody else in mind. emily: what do you make of that thought, ed, given that elon musk runs another company? ed: he has the talent sharing material this goes between from tesla and spacex. he has tweeted a lot that twitter is ultimately a software company and he has talked about making stakes of twitter the underlying technology. he

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unfortunately, it feels like elon musk is a cat playing with a ball of string. ed: a cat with a ball of string, what you are feeling -- hearing is in the background it is business as usual. >> everyone that i have been talking to is under the impression that the deal with proceed as planned. one big sign of that is that the proxy filing hit yesterday morning. that is the big document that explains how the deal came together. it is under that is put together with coordination of the musk camp and the twitter camp and is something musk would have personally had to have signed off on before was filed. it is a proxy to outline the deal. it is a clear indication that both sides do see this deal going forward despite the tweets we are seeing on twitter. >> i have a question, all of this chatter, all this noise in the background about bots and whether or not he had all the information he needed before he agreed to this deal. what happens if he decides, i do not want to pay 5420, what does he have at his disposal? >> a lot of people talk about the fact that the deal has

for a changing world. ♪ >> this is elon musk being elon musk. i don't see him turning back. you know, if he did turn back twitter, there would be some sentiment reset. but i think on their fundamental basis, i don't think he paid much of a premium. i think that twitter was not as mispriced as, you know, perhaps some other equities have been. tom: no one on the faang stocks have been more right and has been less humble than barton crockett. thrilled that mr. crockett was with us this morning, particularly his enthusiasm for alphabet, and the others, not so much. with the chart of the moment, ritika gupta. >> let's talk about the twitter deal that is hitting tesla. it is taking a macro swing. we are shaking things up. twitter and tesla shares normalize on a percentage basis going all the way back year to date. what you will see is it since the deal was announced or even thought about on elon musk's twitter account, you see this variation. twitter shares have been relatively stable, kind of being fixed to that offer price. tesla shares, on the other hand, have taken a dive. a l

what do you make of this elon musk tweet? >> welcome here is the thing, elon musk getting past his business interest, if he wants to be cool and a guy that smokes weed on podcasts. he is making a lot of juvenile jokes on twitter. it is hard to align with the democratic party because it is just not cool. i understand they have abandoned all of their principles. it's not that the people have abandoned them but the democrats, the free-speech party is a party of censorship, drugs, rock 'n' roll and the party of like social construct, the only drugs they want to take is a pharmaceutical vaccine. they don't like rock 'n' roll because a singer might have tweeted something offensive five years ago. no one wants to hang out with the party of the fence and outrage. carley and todd, you know this. you will never be with a party and hear someone go "oh, i can't wait for a guy that gets appended at everything that shows up." and you will never hear it. elon musk he doesn't want to be aligned with that song. so this has me on business but

that's why we encourage elon musk to buy it. someone has to take on the tech tyrants. >> martha: elon musk calling that fake news that president trump encouraged him to do this $44 billion twitter takeover, the tesla ceo tweeting today, this is false. i had no communication directly or indirectly with trump who stated that he will be exclusively on truth social. in moments, trump media and technology group's ceo devin nunes response to this back and forth. first to kelly o'grady. hi, kelly. >> hi, martha. there's been a lot of speculation around what motivated elon musk to initiate this twitter takeover. he's been very vocal about his open town square vision. who motivated him is even more murky. reports are surfacing that musk did not confirm or deknee that he was receiving behind the scenes encouragement from influential billionaires, investors like jack dorsey to the platform's lack of clarity since stepping down. musk was also growing extremely frustrated by key accounts and much of the conservative reaction to the bid expre

emily: are you calling elon musk fluff? kavita: i think he's a visionary. he probably thinks over years he will build. it's like 10 years passed he said he would put people on mars. he has put a spacecraft on the therapeutic there has been -- spacecraft on there. but he's put a spacecraft on their. -- there. it would be great for tech and people, but is it possible in two or three years? i don't think so. emily: looking forward, the market is still reeling from the terra debacle. what is next for stablecoin? kavita: i think we have to make a d 30 asian -- differentiation. the definition of stablecoin came. you have to show in audits, to results to they really haven't dollars, cash equivalent, bonds, treasuries, etc. to support it. i think terra is different, it's been on the problematic side. one thing we've learned, though the decentralized world will also push away and have a different version of programmatic stablecoin, we don't have a lot of gaps as of now, as terra has shown. will there be a problematic stablecoin -- programmatic stablecoin? i believe

elon musk is at it again. twitter report says it's committed to the billionaires original takeover deals despite his concerns. the tesla ceo using the social media platform to vent frustrations on the ev maker getting yanked from the index. all of that later this hour. let's get a look at markets paying for stocks. the s&p 500 suffering its deepest one-day drop in almost two years. here is the latest. consumer retail tech all in the red. >> all in the red, and it has been nothing short of brutal when you have the s&p 500 closing down from 4%. the nasdaq 500 being weighed down from 5%. you have this at heavyweight like apple and amazon down today overpriced in today's session and big tech not being held by the fact that we did have lower yields on that 11 basis points and that's really not helping the markets out today as we fall back into safety and treasuries. when we talk about that risk off sentiment we have to talk about bitcoin. below that $30,000 threshold there and if you actually think about it coin, a

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next, back to twitter, elon musk putting up another roadblock to his acquisition. it all has to do with fake accounts. we will talk more about this next and probably more after that, as well. this is bloomberg. ♪ alix: session off .5 percent for twitter. elon musk's says he will go ahead with the takeover, however the social media platform needs to verify its claim about the number of fake accounts. joining as is bloomberg's ed ludlow. can twitter actually do that? ed: about this whole thing, on april 26 when elon musk agreed to buy twitter, he waived the due diligence. and the language twitter uses in regulatory filings, lesson 5% of users being bots, with the caveat the number could be higher or hard to estimate, has always been that way. april 25 was a long time ago now. the idea that there was a lack of understanding to musk is hard. elon musk has been tweeting a lot, his opinion visible, but he cited the ceo in saying he refused to give some of the data behind twitter's methodology. and if you look at the ceo's tweets, he points out that they met with elon m

how does elon musk not know about this? surely he is in contact with management but there is -- but if there is one thing he has been consistent of doubt, -- consistent about, he doesn't like bots on the plat form and the volume relative to other users may or may not be new information but why bring that up now? it's hard to understand the timing. kriti: let's talk about the deal premium. they were down as much as $36 earlier in the session but even before today's news, you saw this lack of convincing tone when it came to the way these shares traded. >> you are right, we are at $41 per share on twitter and the spread between the $54.20 and current share prices are widening and we use that as an indicator that wall street perception of whether this deal would happen or not, that's the spread you see on your screen. we are following these events in the market is assigning a 40% probability whether we have the trade or not. we need to remember what's been happening in the broader context of technology stocks. we have seen a ma

elon musk says he is concerned about bots. fake accounts often used to spread misinformation in social media. twitter previously disclosed that less than 5% of accounts on its platform are those spam accounts or bots. questioning that estimate. or at least, so we think. joining us tonight, dr. nolan. social media studies at cal state, east bay. nice to have you back on the program. what's going on here? you tell us from your perspective. is this perhaps a ploy to buy twitter for a cheaper price for elon musk? >> it is a great question. musk appears to be using the real problem of fake accounts to distract from something. some thought maybe he was distracting from his finances. others think may be a complex negotiation strategy. regardless, it seems like an odd behavior to publicize in a company you are attempting to buy. >> the whole thing about this is odd. does twitter have bought problems? are they hard to spot and remove? >> they are largely private unaccountable company. only the folks of twitter would know that. we as us

elon musk, not somebody on the right. he's an ideological ideological enigma but it's a threat. >> it's the playbook. they have the story written before they have the facts or lack thereof. my favorite are some of these former schoolmates who were black and are black and they are like yeah, we were friends, he's great. there is not a single shred of evidence to support this narrative they are putting it out there anyway because they have to. because their preferred narrative is under threat. because if elon musk returns twitter to the free speech place that it should be, to the town square that he wanted to be that's bad for business for the legacy media. they've got to attack at while they still have a chance. >> let's be honest, this boils down to letting president trump back on the platform. >> 100%. >> you know it's ironic about that? trump saved the legacy media by the near times was going out of business, look at what happened. last would have for sale in the first place? when he got out of the office twittered the

that was elon musk talking about that. what is your take on elon musk pushing back in that way? >> well he absolutely should push back on it. he considers himself a free speech absolutist, frankly the media in this country last 10 years, corporate media and social media has been biased towards one way, towards democrats. he is absolutely right. he is new sheriff in town to allow speech going forward. >> he was on brian stelter's show, this went viral, you cannot let these guys meaning elon musk control discourse in this country. quote, we're headed to hell. trump opened the gates of hell, they're chasing us down. how will we control the channels of communication in this country? he said how are we going to control that? what do you think of that? >> this is classic liberal hypocrisy and over the top hyperventilation. what this cnn media analyst is saying that elon musk purchase of twitter threatens the democrats ability to control the narrative. even more jaw-dropping the government should do more to regulate the first amendment because only trusted media folks like this person

>> i don't follow elon musk. so, you know, he does what he wants to do. >> i think he says he's voted democrat his whole life now he's voted republican. >> fine. i'll go find somebody else who says the opposite. i mean, who case >> katie: jessie she's been tweeting obsessively about elon musk and billionaires how they don't pay enough money. she's definitely. >> jesse: it's like a girl obsessed with a guile and all of a sudden i don't care about you >> katie: who cares >> jesse: musk was right the democrats were always nasty but they got really nasty are the resistance. really nasty. and we could tell how nasty they got and he didn't change. he's always been kind of the common sense independent guy and he bought into the whole liberal thing, i'm nice, we care about people. and then it turns out they don't care about people. they care about power. and we saw it on social media, how vicious they can be, saw what they did to trump and all of his supporters. and now he's thinking to himself saying hey, i didn't go an

>> i don't give a damn about elon musk. i'm much more concerned about helping out my constituents, and protecting them from being discriminated against in school and any other place. what's billionaires are doing when they're wasting $44 million on the stuff, when they can be feeding every congregate in america so many times over, i just don't have the capacity to really care about what he wants to do compared to the very basic essence of making sure that all of my constituents, that they are treated fairly, and they are being respected by the very people elected serve them. >> i thought a lot understand your sentiments about not giving a damn about elon musk. the problem, is sadly, that voters hold a lot of hate speech and bigotry. but danica, rome congratulations on the, book thank you so much for appearing on the show tonight. >> thank you for inviting me, it's good to be here. >> coming, up is it actually a way for republicans to stop trump if he runs for president again in 2024? i'm not so sure myself, but but journali

you mentioned elon musk's tweet. let's show that. this is a stick figure political chart. >> you just reasoned, and you got a kick out of this. why? explain this stick figure chart and what you think it tells us. >> well, i think it's ooh another example of elon musk being unbelievably smarter than almost everybody else. he took everything pollsters and social analysts have been saying and political analysts and and put it into a very simple tweets, a couple simple stick figures. back this 2008 he was sort of a liberal, and the liberals were fairly close to the center. then in 2012 he was sort of in the center, and the liberals were going to the left. now today the he finds himself to the right of center, and he finds the liberals have gone crazy, they're so far to the left. and meanwhile the conservatives in his stick figures are about where they've always been in the record of reagan and what we did and trump. so i thought he captured in that one documenting the whole policy problem. now, as i said, there's a performance failure an

elon musk is now putting this deal on hold. what do you make of this once again in his typical style, he tweeted out this news that the deal is on hold, the stock is plummeting this morning, your reaction. >> usually when you do a deal maria you do diligence and make an offer. he does that way around. he submitted an offer and now doing due diligence. the stock is unchanged. now he's getting underneath the hood and looking at all the anomalies, things -- how many percent is this, my guess this is to further negotiate. the stock will come down and maybe come back with a different offer. i hope he gets it because of free speech and all the reasons why we cited before but at the end of the day i think this negotiation tactic to bring the price down lower and for him to scoop it up cheaper. maria: yeah, james freeman jump in here because when elon musk first took on this deal he said he wanted to do away with the bots, do away with the robots on twitter. devin nunes was on this program a couple of weeks ago saying there's so many b

i see the way elon musk uses twitter and it reminds me of when it no. putting anything out you want to stir people up and say that was a joke. people have been heard from what has been posted on twitter. careers have and lives that have been destroyed from twitter posts. we have to be very vigilant about it. i have to say, he could walk away by in just $1 billion in the deal. >> right. right, right. >> pocket chaise to him. that should be part of the story too. someone has that much money and that much wer. i feel he is making a power move and controlling a very public square of information. >> absolutely. let's turn to a story about people who do not have as much power and do not have influence. hearing seven happy this week about the proposal of governor newsom to implement care courts to address issues with homelessness. you have been following the hearings. >> interestingly i think obviously this is aimed at homelessness but really it is in the severely mentally ill but i think they are trying to make the distinction. this court could help people wh

elon musk had put tesla stuck in there as collateral. i boosting the equity portion further, experts say 6 billion additional financing, it takes the margin loan off the table. it do risks the deal for everyone involved. clocks are there personal reasons for him wanting to do this? >> yes, a big chunk of his net worth, if you look at his tesla equity including options, or than 100 billion dollars but about half of it elon musk borrows against the value of that stock. he has always complained about being cash poor. he doesn't take a salary from tesla or spacex. all of that stock is collateralized in the forms of various debt. for him, this takes that off the table. he has sold tesla stuck recently. it makes him sort of in a better cash position to this deal off. what we are hearing is that there have been some key departures. a hiring freeze internally. also, some offers to new employees have been made being rescinded because the company is in flux waiting to see what happens with this deal. wall street is having some doubts. in the main

"elon musk needs to act fast. you're to think that she is qualified to start editing your tweets. >> verified people they can start editing twitter the same sort of way that wikipedia is so they can add fun facts to certain tweets. >> jeanine: they sure know how to traffic they tweeted out a bogus claim that there was no vaccine available when president joe biden took office which is a flat out lie. headed jesse. [laughs] >> jesse: by the way that woman is a snob but there's nothing worse than a snob that works in government. that combination is really deadly. under what elon musk is trying to do you can make money off of a bot's there boosting the bot count same a pass for the platform. he needs to figure it out or he's trying to cut loose from the deal because the market is tanking. rates are going up maybe he can't get the financing a thought. i always try to do but he likely trying to do here. you're able to get paid for certain tweets i love that idea. if you between the goes viral like this tweet when viral,

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this is classic elon musk, right? going to twitter, stating his side of the story but us not having a mechanism to ask him about it. alix: the vibe, there, do shareholders wanted to go through? are they into the deal? ed: thinking about ragged rock, the end of the world as we know it, $54 and $.20 per share seems an unbelievable offer right now. put yourself in the shoes of the shareholder and that outcome versus worst-case scenario, you would probably take it, right? but i think there is a concern that no matter what happens, twitter has to change. elon musk is talking about moving to a subscription model. thinking about advertising models in this macro environment that we are currently living in, something has to give and that's what i'm hearing that only from twitter shareholders but insiders as well trying to get to work on a product, product engineers who have been working on something for some time and they worry that if elon musk comes in they will have to pivot in a dramatically different direction. guy: the s

why should americans trust someone who's worried about elon musk's plan to increase speech and debate. >> if it's goals end up being does a matches idea of less screen falsehoods spreading so quickly, conspiracy theories does he share that or not? >> laura: complete mm in to to 2 tonet it's good to see you. given all this achy behavior, the world is bill gates remained in this rarefied air on all the network? >> because he is a useful billionaire for the left. you've george soros you can use for radical being put in a power, mark zuckerberg case useful because he can rig elections in bill gates is useful in a whole variety of fronts including some of the leftist goals on reducing world population among other crazy ideas. but they all seem to forget is you just mentioned that he is a creep, he was good buddies with jeffrey epstein. and quite frankly he's a freak with the eating of bugs and fake meats and all the other things too always trying to force everyone to get stuck to get a therapeutic shot they are forgetting that because he's useful to them and you made a part to me about elo

>> i think elon musk first principle is he will not take orders from the party in power. that is one the prompt of the social media companies of the last couple of years, maria. they said they're acting as private companies the government says have nothing to do with it. but in reality the party in power has use a combination of threats including in these congressional hearings inducements in section 2:30 and now jep jen psaki will tell you they are coordinating together to take them hate speech and misinformation that the government and party in power does not like. elon musk first message should be the fact that actually is not going to carry out state action he's going to implement a vision first free speech on the platform predicament that rose simple syngas illegal content can come down previous pornography and commercially profit spam does not belong on twitter but one principal is there is no viewpoint based discrimination bred by the way up there certain users who do not want to see unpleasant or offensive hate speech, great give the power back to the user to deci

plus, elon musk putting his twitter buyout deal on hold.

elon musk when after bernie sanders and his tweet and he forgot he was alive. and elizabeth warren attacked him for not paying enough taxes. i think he paid $11 billion. this has helped for the policies have gone. inflation is so painful that they have to go this far to point it out to them and tweet back at them. this administration has totally lost it. >> todd: elon musk is not the only billionaire taking on biden and the democrats. jeff bezos, the guy who owns liberal post weeding in part "they understandably want money the topic. they know inflation hurts and they need us the most. remember the administration tried their best to add $3.5 trillion to federal spending." quite a series, president biden visiting buffalo, new york, to agree with the community after ten people are killed in a supermarket shouldn't. >> what happen here is simple and straightforward, terrorism, terrorism, domestic terrorism. and a surface of hate. >> carley: some want to know where they refused waukesha, wisconsin, after six people killed in a christmas parade attacked there. our n

elon musk has been watching this from afar. now he's going to buy twitter and he wants to level the playing field. he wants to brick back all players. a study from pugh research, 92% of all tweets were send from 1% of the uters. they identify as democratic or left leaning voters. many people said i'm getting off if donald trump is on. bye, girls. >> martha: it's the new version of i'm going to move to canada. danielle, what do you think about jack dorsey and elon musk saying that they think it was a mistake to knock the former president off the platform? >> well, not that -- i think you can have two thoughts and two things can be true at once, right? people like elon musk and people like jack dorsey and other social media over-lords have way too much power of the public discourse. you can't have the same thought in your mind, which is using kelly an's words, incendiary. the reason trump was banned is because of this incitement january 6 and seeing our capitol building attacked. we need to have clear-headed conversations about w