twaes happening right now is elon musk is in a q&a session with chris andersen who is the curator of ted this is a big interview. very conveniently scheduled for today. so i think that twitter employees are probably listening carefully to what musk is saying and expecting it to be addressed in the meeting with the employees this amp musk was clear he cares about twitter being a platform for free speech, doesn't have the answers but important to protect the platform he wasn't sure how he was going to do it but take a listen to what he said. >> civilization risk is decreased if twitter -- the more we can increase the trust of twitter as a public platform and so i do think this will be somewhat painful i don't know that i cae it >> so he was saying he wasn't sure exactly how this was going to play out and important to protect it as a platform for free speech and talked about when he tweets it is a stream of consciousness and an edit button so people couldn't manipulate that a conversation going on for more than a half an hour and monitoring that. of course there are the reports that the

and i quote them extensively in the book interviewing a lot of the silicon valley leaders like chris andersen the former editor wired magazine saying these screens for our kids or as bad as a drug, they are addictive and the silicon valley designers of them hired consultants who were experts in addiction and attention what they call persuasive design to get people onto these sites and hold them there, especially the kids now you you asked but wait a minute. it's all great the stuff out there, but you know 15 year olds. 15 year olds don't want to go to the you know the national gallery of art and look at paintings by old masters. they want to connect with other 15 year olds. that's the social nature of adolescence. they're more interested in what happened at the party last saturday then what happened at waterloo 2005 six years ago. so the social impulses and all the insecurities. of the adolescent ego know the confusion. i'm not quite sure who i am. my identity is just really beginning to form. i'm just now coming into contact with the big wide world out there and it can be, you know, an uncer

thing that just happened is that elon musk spoke at the ted 2022 conference in an interview with chris andersen, and he explained his interest in buying twitter and taking it private, saying it's really about his interest in preserving this global town square as a destination for free speech, wanting to really preserve that for democracy. saying that even though it was going to be painful, this was a very important cause that he wants to support now, there's been a lot of talk about the fact that musk has spoken publicly and tweeted about his criticism of the ad-supported model, so there's been this question about whether or not he would be underselling the potential for twitter and if he were to find a financial partner, who that might be if he's more interested in having a subscription business, which would presumably have many fewer users than an ad-supported business here. so still a lot of questions about what exactly this looks like, if he would find a financial partner and what the next steps are, but there's also been some news out about the board talking about a poison pill and also th