Lawfare Archive: ‘How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter’ with Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
The Lawfare Podcast24 Joulu 2025

Lawfare Archive: ‘How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter’ with Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

From September 19, 2024: On April 14, 2022, New York Times technology reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac woke up to a stunning four-word tweet from Elon Musk’s Twitter account: “I made an offer.” Having long covered the technology and social media beat, they read Musk’s terse post as the “unbelievable but inevitable culmination of two storylines we had pursued for a decade as journalists in Silicon Valley.”

On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien spoke to Conger and Mac about the cloak-and-dagger corporate dealings that preceded the offer, as well as the drama that unfolded after the ink dried, which they reported in detail in their new book, “Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter.” They discussed Musk’s predecessors—Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal—as well as the platform’s troubled history of content moderation, and why the billionaire wanted it all for himself.

To receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare. You can also support Lawfare by making a one-time donation at https://givebutter.com/lawfare-institute.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jaksot(2865)

An Impeachment Trial Update

An Impeachment Trial Update

We have an impeachment trial going on. We've had hours and hours of presentation by the House managers, and hours of presentation by the president's defense team, and there are likely hours to go. To ...

28 Tammi 202051min

Michael Schwirtz on Russia's Lethal Actions in Europe

Michael Schwirtz on Russia's Lethal Actions in Europe

The past few years have seen an uptick in Russian covert actions across Europe, including assassinations and attempted killings of people in Ukraine, Bulgaria, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Just th...

25 Tammi 202051min

Renee DiResta on Disinformation and Misinformation From Vaccines to the GRU

Renee DiResta on Disinformation and Misinformation From Vaccines to the GRU

For this episode of Lawfare’s Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Alina Polyakova and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Renee DiResta, the technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observato...

23 Tammi 202042min

'Unmaking the Presidency'

'Unmaking the Presidency'

"Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office," by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes, was published today. The Brookings Institution hosted a launch event, moderat...

22 Tammi 20201h 28min

The Lawfare Podcast Special Edition: Senate Trial Preview

The Lawfare Podcast Special Edition: Senate Trial Preview

The Senate impeachment trial of President Trump starts Tuesday. The President now has a legal team. And over the weekend, both the House impeachment managers and the President's lawyers filed initial ...

21 Tammi 20201h

Shorts: The Sordid History of Impeachment

Shorts: The Sordid History of Impeachment

The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is set to begin on Jan. 21, and the question of what constitutes an impeachable offense is sure to feature in the trial itself and in the broader discus...

19 Tammi 202018min

Batya Ungar-Sargon on the Anti-Semitic Violence in New York

Batya Ungar-Sargon on the Anti-Semitic Violence in New York

Batya Ungar-Sargon is the opinion editor of The Forward, the Jewish newspaper published out of New York City. She has been among the chroniclers, both in print and on Twitter, of the recent spate of a...

18 Tammi 202039min

Bobby Chesney and Danielle Citron on Deep Fakes

Bobby Chesney and Danielle Citron on Deep Fakes

On this episode of the Arbiters of Truth series, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with law professors Bobby Chesney and Danielle Citron about deep fakes—that is, artificial audio and video that c...

16 Tammi 202051min

Suosittua kategoriassa Politiikka ja uutiset

aikalisa
politiikan-puskaradio
rss-ootsa-kuullut-tasta
tervo-halme
ootsa-kuullut-tasta-2
viisupodi
et-sa-noin-voi-sanoo-esittaa
rss-vaalirankkurit-podcast
rss-podme-livebox
rss-asiastudio
otetaan-yhdet
aihe
the-ulkopolitist
radio-antro
rss-hyvaa-huomenta-bryssel
rss-sanna-ukkola-show-verkkouutiset
rss-tasta-on-kyse-ivan-puopolo-verkkouutiset
rss-kiina-ilmiot
rss-kovin-paikka
rss-vain-talouselamaa