Brian Fung | @[email protected]

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Read the letter Musk sent to the board before the deal was approved: https://t.co/KEwSk2sl7c — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Remarkable Facebook document obtained by @lorenzofb: "We can’t confidently make controlled policy changes or external commitments such as 'we will not use X data for Y purpose.' And yet, this is exactly what regulators expect us to do." https://t.co/BDw2mqvzZ2 — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Testifying at Senate Banking, @chopracfpb warns that "uncontrolled flows of consumer data" and tech's growing involvement in finance risks making the US more like China, with implications for privacy, fraud and discrimination: https://t.co/poZHllIY4u https://t.co/THjIlHRnlS — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

The morning after the Twitter news, it's worth revisiting this important @mmasnick analysis of what Elon *thinks* he knows about content moderation: https://t.co/Ox8Aru1B8n — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Fidelity is becoming the first retirement plan provider to allow holding bitcoin in 401(k)s: https://t.co/kpW4a79JtJ — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @donie: NEW w/@claresduffy: CNN obtained audio of Twitter’s all-hands call on Monday discussing the Musk takeover. https://t.co/5Y4H1… — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @donie: In an internal note sent to Twitter staff, @paraga writes of @elonmusk takeover: “I know this is a significant change and you'… — PolitiTweet.org

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Aaaand there it is: Elon Musk to acquire Twitter for $54.20 a share https://t.co/jqqo5xdwmJ — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Even the structure of Musk's financing is characteristically unusual, according to this Reuters analysis https://t.co/6u8Hy7gWCX https://t.co/Nnv0m8nUtM — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Just in: EU policymakers have reached agreement on a sweeping set of tech regulations on content moderation, algorithms and advertising, a month after advancing a major bill dealing with tech competition. Big step with potentially global implications. https://t.co/VIWIrdyT6i — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

CNN+ is shutting down, though some of its content may live on, per @oliverdarcy and @brianstelter https://t.co/KYSgeFbmyh — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

The latest update from TikTok and CFIUS on their discussions is that there is no update (again). https://t.co/LRlhjFtgMw — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Following yesterday's changes to US mask mandates on public transportation, Uber and now Lyft have announced rollbacks to their mask requirements for both riders and drivers: https://t.co/uTtFmUa06o — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

@AlexJamesFitz May 2-4 includes May 3... ... a Tuesday — PolitiTweet.org

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@BenjySarlin The actual answer is probably network effects, but also, even the people who are on the alternatives aren't that into it because it's too much of an ideological echo chamber. https://t.co/c0gGyuPI1X — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

@jdawsey1 Between the time it costs you and the price of Uber / parking, it's probably a wash. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Here's @claresduffy on three ways Twitter's board could respond to Elon Musk's offer: https://t.co/eypG0uGVbz — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Instead, Musk would prefer that all the hard cases be resolved by applying the easy rubric of "does someone hate this speech? Then it must be free!" Which is an enormous oversimplification of the realities of speech. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

There are legions of academics and advocates and lawyers who are expert in the complexities of speech and speech moderation, and Musk is riffing as if he's engaging on these hypotheticals for the first time and lands on the cop-out, "I'm not saying we have all the answers." — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Listening back, it's striking how little Musk seems to have thought about the hard cases on speech. His suggestions basically amount to 1) non-promotion of controversial tweets and 2) more use of temporary suspensions, which are tweaks by degree, not "civilizational" change. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Musk's test for free speech: "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? And if that is the case then we have free speech." — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Musk says he wants Twitter to open-source its algorithm so that users can see when (and by implication, why) the platform takes action on their content. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Musk is framing his offer to buy Twitter in the same "civilizational" terms that he describes Tesla's mission -- "This is not a way to make money .... having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization." — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

@Eleanor_S_Tyler This is a different interview. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

So... is Elon running behind? — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @Cat_Zakrzewski: Exclusive: House lawmakers launched an investigation of the face-scan contractor https://t.co/SsGYBGS5Wz. Earlier today… — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @TEDchris: OK, we're opening up the @elonmusk interview live. Plus another major surprise. Tune in at 9.45am US Pacific Time. https://t… — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Seems notable that while Elon says his offer is a 38% premium over the day his Twitter investment was announced, his offer of $54.20 a share is 26% lower than Twitter's 52-week high of $73.34 following a strong earnings report https://t.co/UbOLSOrwrA https://t.co/0ruj0yEjH3 — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Musk’s SEC filing proposing to take Twitter private: https://t.co/3u81wWLSbe https://t.co/5C1ZywXQAD — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Just in: Elon Musk offers to buy all of Twitter, saying in an SEC filing that if his offer of $54.20 per share is rejected, “I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.” https://t.co/RPRvjYmyDu — PolitiTweet.org