Elon Musk Might Break Twitter. Maybe That's a Good Thing
About this episode
Klein talks with Axios chief financial correspondent Felix Salmon about Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter and what the platform actually is. Salmon argues Twitter is less a social network than an elite attention market where journalists, politicians, and investors perform for one another — and that Musk's ownership would bend that market to his own ends. They discuss free speech and content moderation, the economics of attention, Tesla's meme-driven valuation, Dogecoin and crypto speculation, Web3 and DAOs, and why Twitter's political power may be peaking as institutions develop resistance to it. Klein presses whether a privately owned Twitter could be meaningfully more open, and what happens to public discourse when its central nervous system is controlled by the world's richest man.