the same way that twitter used -- trump has used twitter to bypass media. in the arab spring protest, people organized against what they saw authoritarian governments they used twitter and facebook and used social media in ways that they could not do in a previous era. it gives people a way to have a voice without getting permission. it is also true that trump put much more of a spotlight on twitter and gave it more relevance in a way that twitter did not like because it brought all these questions about whether twitter is responsible for the things that he says. host: let's talk to mike from pennsylvania next. caller: my issue isn't just with twitter it is with social media and general. ever since this more liberal leaning government system took office, there has been more censorship on all social media. twitter, facebook, you name it. host: what do you think? guest: i have not seen credible research on this. it is true that there has been an evolution over the past 10 years, over the past five years, a rethinking about what had been a free speech absoluti

twitter, amazon and meta. what were your key takeaways? >> we will start off with twitter. that one closely watched because of the trauma surrounding the elon musk takeover. that is set to happen at a later date. we got news that founder jack dorsey is stepping off the board. a key director also failing his reelection bid. moving on to amazon, shareholders rejecting all of the proposals in place to make t he conditions better for the workers. this company has come under a lot of scrutiny because of those conditions for workers and also the stock split being approved by shareholders at 20 to 1. that is set to take place in june. emily: thank you for that round up. meantime we are learning new details about the deadly and devastating shooting in uvalde, texas. texas governor greg abbott saying the 18-year-old posted about his plans on facebook in the minutes before the attack. >> as of this time, the only information that was known in advance was posted by the gunman on facebook approximately 30 minutes before reaching the school. the first post was to the point of -- he said

let's talk about twitter.ay, it's a major news sources vivian explains, elon musk has had an offer of $41; billion accepted for the whole thing. lauren hirsch from the new york times, you've been reporting on this in detail. took but to happen so quickly really took us all by surprise. how did that happen? it was incredible. i was outside a show texting with a source just to touch l base and my source goes, a deal could happen - maybe monday, maybe not. i was like, "what are you talking about?" i it happened at an - exceptionally fast speed. the board — to take a step back, - elon musk put the offer out there without any financing. there was a lot of scepticism that it was real, it _ was le-itimate and he lined up financing on wednesday, displayed on thursday i and all of a sudden | it became very real. and the board was faced i with the decision of looking at its prospect of standing. alone and what its long—term business trajectory was, and there was this sense that, frankly, it was limited. - there's a of c

more than 15 times the amount twitter under the same period last year. twitter is not the biggest social platform either. it has more than $200.00. 17000000 davy uses, compared with billions for facebook and instagram. where there have been different reactions to the deal from politicians while the white house said it's concerned about the power of large social media platforms. some republicans welcomed it as an encouraging day for freedom of speech. to discuss all of that. now i'm joined by daniel, i'm from new york. daniel is the managing director and senior equity research analyst at wed bush security. thank you for your time. i you surprised by this deal, then known in a 1000000 years come in 2022 would think that you are in moscow and twitter. so with that said, of twitter is vulnerable. i mean, the company has been on their performance social media for the last decade and must can knew that there was an opportunity. and also it was a game of thrones to board. look for another bidder. a white knight couldn't find it. must be called his finance, the richest person, the world they had

oddly at the end of the day the new twitter may end up looking a lot like the old twitter. >> i would though musk wants to expand speech a lot on twitter he's going to end up closer to what twitter does now. >> reporter: for "this week" deirdre bolton, abc news, new york. >> let's get more on this from kara swisher host of the sway podcast, our chief legal analyst dan abrams. kara, let me begin with you. as a journalist you probably know elon musk and interviewed him about a dozen times. what do you think he's up to? >> he wants to own twitter. he thinks it's an interesting business. i think he thinks it's good for his business. he's an active user and he feels like it was going the wrong direction. that's sort of an outside story. i think he thinks it's an underleveraged asset and it certainly is. no one has been able to make the kind of money other tech companies have made that are in that space like facebook or snapchat and tiktok and he thinks it's an opportunity and he also likes the attention. i don't know if you noticed. >> i want to press that first point, though. you believe

>> twitter was closely watched. buzz because the drama surrounding elon musk's takeover drama, but that actually is said to have been at a later date. we got the news that founder jack dorsey is stepping down off the board and a key director also failing his reelection bid. let's move onto amazon because the shareholders are rejecting all of the proposals that were in place to make the conditions better for the workers. this company has come under a lot of scrutiny because of those conditions for workers as we know. and also, the stock split being approved by shareholders at 20 to one, that is set to take pace in june. emily: thank you for that round up. meantime, we're learning new details about the deadly and devastating shooting in texas. texas governor greg abbott saying the 18-year-old gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at rob elementary school posted about his plans in facebook the minutes before the attack. >> as of this time, the only information that was known in advance was posted by the gunmen

able to actually change twitter as well but the reality is twitter is an established lot form. has been around for a while and convincing people twitter is a whole new platform is going to be a big challenge. emily: insider intelligence, jasmine, always appreciate having her thoughts on that show. another story we continue to watch -- elon musk other company, tesla, isolating thousands of workers in china to make sure they are covid-free. this is a large-scale plan to ramp up production at its plant in shanghai after weeks of lockdown. workers are being housed in unused factories and an old military camp. they will be allowed to join other workers inside the production bubble after a two or three day quarantine in accordance with government orders. coming up, shareholder showdown -- that twitter annual meeting coming in the midst of musk's deal. more on what you can expect, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: twitter's annual meeting kicks off wednesday and the company continues to find itself in quite the match. on one side of the ring is elon musk with his offer to buy the comf

it's month for twitter. the saw must take a 9 percent stake in the company, making him its largest shareholder. he was then offered a seat on the board of directors, only to have it abruptly revoked, followed by his cash offer to buy the entire company, all within the last few weeks. ultimately, e lawn must got what he wanted to not only be a twitter user, but to also be its owner. gabe rosato al jazeera new york. investors have long been concerned about the company's growth. the number suggests that twitter is hard a the most successful social media platform in the marketplace. the company ended 2021 with a $5000000000.00 revenue fraction of the figures recorded by other platforms, facebook's core app, and nearly $70000000.00 in advertising revenue. more than 15 times the amount twitter earned in the same period last year. twitter is not the biggest social platform either and as more than 217000000 davy uses, compared with billions for facebook and instagram. well, there have been different reactions to the

all twitter users to. that's not true i said divided amongst all twitter.now, what about the let's >> that is all the time we have today. but really appreciate the insight. and i guess nobody knows where this is headed. is the bottom line, is that right? that's right. >> brought up from ciena. thank you so much for joining us here on kron. 4 news at 5. thank you for having me. still ahead here kron 4 exclusive, a former sheriff's volunteer is under investigation accused of building and selling ghost guns. we will hear from his wife. >> who says she tried repeatedly to warn law enforcement. >> and why the white house is canceled. multiple offshore oil and gas lease sales as americans face record high prices at the pump. for state controller, only yiu will save taxpayers money. wait, who, me? me? no, not you. yvonne yiu. yvonne yiu. not me. good choice. for 25 years, yiu worked as an executive at top financial firms. managed hundreds of audits. as mayor, she saved taxpayers over $55 million. finding waste. saving money. because... yiu is for you. yiu is for y

nasdaq 100 up by almost 3% and twitter up by 9%.deal to buy the company is on pause. i want to start with you. what are bankers telling you right now? you have a lot invested in this? >> they do. he had gone to a lot of parties not only for the margin loan which our own booing reporter reported. he is trying to find new financing so reduce the margin so a lot of people talking to musk to try to get this done but again let's look at the merger spread because that is where the money is to be made and lost. shares much lower than the offer price. a lot of questions about whether he is going to drop the bid entirely or renegotiate the offer price. there's a breakup in both directions. if he walks away it is a billion dollars, if twitter walks away it is a billion dollars. so the question is who stands to lose if it does not go through. guy: let's say it goes ahead but at a lower price. how does that change the funding requirement that musk needs to put in place? can he use what is already there? does he need to change that? how would th

we're doing twitter. so with that said on twitter is vulnerable. i mean, the company's been on their performance social media for the last decade and must, can knew that there was an opportunity. and also it was a game of thrones to board and look for another bidder. a white knight could find it must details in financing riches person the world they had to down deal got done . so, you know, look, i think for mosque the easy part. he was playing chassis, the board was playing checkers. so that was the easy part, the hard parts can be fixing twitter, which is what i view as i'm as an ever is like up to a battle. there's been a lot of touring and falling to get to this point. it was, you know, is it almost going to join the board? no, he's not. he wants to buy it out that going to put for this poison pill plan that didn't happen. why do you think it is that the board ended up accepting this deal? well this is, this is a game, a game of thrones, right? and in terms of how it all played out. i mean, ultimately, i mean must surprise the board with the 9

in the deal, they are learning billions of dollars of debt onto the books of twitter and twitter has to pay for the moving forward. can you make enough profit? especially as he talks about getting rid of the base model which gets most of the revenue. he talks about new initiatives úthat do not always pay off. flat out says he doesn't care about the economics, right? that is really going to be a question moving forward. i think again, some of the uncertainty that is just resting on the shoulders of twitter and its employees are now. >> in the last few moments we have, we have reports that came out this week, i understand it is called [ null ] week in business reporter service because so many reports come out and we have had a very serious warning about a major recession,. >> deutsche bank says there will be a recession it. the only bank that has gone that far saying that, what we have seen in these earnings report so far is the companies, apple and facebook and google and microsoft and amazon big tech companies just blew up during the pandemic, right? two years of profits we have neve

i don't believe that bots are less than 5% of the twitter user base, which is what twitter says. and facebook says something similar, to be clear. this is not a unique situation for twitter. but elon has had an issue with bots. he has made it part of his campaign of how he is going to clean up the service and what he will do to clean up twitter. he says he believes it is higher and we have seen the twitter ceo going back and forth with elon today trying to explain here is how we measure bots, and elon replied with a poop emoji. he clearly was not interested in the explanation, and i think that is a big sign as to why he is saying this is on hold. he wants more answers. taylor: you are not allowed to use that emoji with me. kurt: i would never. taylor: mandeep, you have been commenting on this similarly. you take a look at the bottom up analysis of these companies, actual fundamentals, revenue growth, profitability. how do you think about the percentage of bots, the impact on the health of this company? mandeep: clearly it is a bigger problem with twitter. you take out, let's say,

twitter ultimately down 1.5%. he says if he is successful in buying twitter, elon musk, he would reverse the ban on donald trump. we're looking at the context of the earnings, coinbase softer than expected sales in the first quarter. the problem with coinbase is that we're looking at transactions going further into the second quarter. we have been down more than 10%. you have to remember that with a volatility we saw a lot of volatility in the first quarter on all risk assets, but the sales and earnings did not meet earnings. emily: and cryptocurrencies falling. thank you. i want to dive into the ongoing volatility and we saw a big selloff since the start of the year. where joined now by the chief market strategist at putnam investments. thank you for joining us. what do you make of the selloff especially when it comes to tech? is there more to come? >> there is probably more to come. it makes sense that tech stocks have pulled back so far because we have seen tech stocks do well in the past three years, especiall

musk has managed to drive down the price of twitter so far and it is hard to say if twitter will findnother buyer at this stage. francine: so much going on. he doesn't seem to be in charge. laura wright with that wonderful -- tom mackenzie he says he is not interested, but i know he is checking what elon musk says. tom: we were saying during the break that there is a $100 million breakup fee. francine: if you look at bonds at the moment, chinese bonds actually opened lower and we are fully focused on the ecb hike bets. wounds have been sliding today and the haven has been unwinding. the money markets wager on maintaining the ecb rate hikes by december. myles bradshaw, head of global aggregate fi strategy at jp morgan, is still with us. is there anything at all that looks attractive in the european bond space? myles: you have got me there. the thing is that the valuations have moved a lot. that is the first thing. when you look at u.s. and european bonds, we see that the first valuation point is interesting. people have been underweight and they knew not -- do not want to risk their eq

you on mosque says he's putting his bid to by twitter on temporary hold, claiming twitter is official stats under estimate the number of fake and spam accounts and platform. that's racing speculation. the mosque might be getting cold feet on a deal in a follow up tweet mosque insisted he was still committed to buying the social media company. that's our show. find out moral lines. they'll be dot com slash business also on youtube. thanks for watching. with to the point. strong opinions or positions international perspectives. let him approach it and brushes armed forces have suffered some serious setbacks during the invasion of neighboring you crate. so will they scaled back operations always puts in perhaps set to launch a new campaign. find out on to the point show going to the point on d. w kind of started out with disputation and transformed into an orgy of hate and violence. the history of the ku klux klan, the oldest terrorist organization in the united states. its members white for a racist state, ruled by white supremacy founded over 150 years ago. it's repeatedly died out, bu

i think there are some echoes of that in elon trying to purchase twitter but there are things twittersell and hasn't sold for many years in terms of the algorithm. some of the innovations in terms of editing tweets and deleting tweets, content moderation. that said, you can go all the way the other way where there is no control and you remove everything and become something reminiscent of for chan or whatever the latest toxic social media network or platform is. i hope elon is able to look at this and say i'm going to divorce the world of the algorithm and revenue from the tweet stream and amplify messages that have ugly information, things that cause genocide. we need to separate the capital and revenue from the messages amplified by the algorithm. that is when you have the toxicity that happens because if it bleeds it leads, you know. i hope elon is going to be doing the right, even if he brings trump back on, trump should not be amplified for revenue gain. emily: let's talk about that moment. i want you to take a listen to what elon had to say about the banning of president trump t

you must attempt to take over. twitter is continuing to make waves. this week, investors sued the billionaire and the platform itself over alleged market manipulation, while handling the acquisition process of the lawsuit focuses on alleged wrongful conduct by musk during the acquisition process. in particular, his latest statement is that the agreement could not move forward as is according to the complaint. this drove twitters stock down and thus benefited musk boss who also notes that he took a financial advantage of a delay to disclosure of his stake in the company. when it exceeded 5 percent, allowing him to continue to buy shares at a discount by delaying his disclosure of his stake in twitter, muskie engaged in market manipulation in but twitter stock at an artificially low price. earlier in the musket bounced the temporary suspension of the transaction for the purchase of twitter in order to take time to identify the proportion of fake accounts. he has insisted that a 5th of the accounts on twitter are fake investors think this is an attempt t

meanwhile, this , twitter exposed a weekend of debate on just how many fake accounts exist on twitterwitter on hold on friday after questioning twitter's assessment that only 5% of active users are made up accounts, fake accounts, but over the weekend, musk tweet ed again and questioned whether that number was far worse, saying active users could be a lot worse than 5%, keep in mind, active users are what advertisers pay for , but musk questioned whether the number of fake accounts is actually up to 90% of daily active users. he responded someone asking about it. we have not heard from twitter to come back from this comment of 90%. former congressman and trump media technology group ceo devin nunes joined me yesterday on "sunday morning futures" and he said the same thing. >> we don't spend a lot of time worrying about twitter because as i said from the very beginning twitter is a ghost town, a house of cards, so for them to say they only have 5 % that are fake accounts, i think it's probably closer that they may only have 5% that are actually real people in real accounts. maria: agai

and now, becoming the sole owner of twitter.nts to change social media policies to loosen content moderation. well, that is remove censorship in the name of absolute freedom of speech, so that twitter becomes a digital city square, where everyone can shout whatever they want westerners. the media immediately sounded the alarm. for example, the new york times will scare that twitter under the leadership of the mask will become a terrible place for breeding, racism and discrimination. however, it is not surprising that american journalists. they were afraid because the concept of freedom of speech they have there is sometimes very specific, depending on trends and moods. january 2021 trump supporters storm the capitol after that, the leadership of twitter decides to permanently block the account of the forty-fifth president. moreover, all local liberal media welcome this censorship, but musk, as it turned out now, was at the root of disagreement, it is obvious that musk wants to influence politics. that's why he bought the social

some on the right had all spike and twitter followers. some of the left, including a lot of good politicians, were screaming that they lost thousands of followers overnight. and after all of this noise, following about about twitter accounts, sort of then announces that it estimates speak. fam accounts do indeed represent less than 5 percent of users. they announce this after all the noise and effort, you love bio and you know, what else the added twitter added in the fine print that it's quarterly results in quotes that the actual number of fake accounts could be higher could. now if you want to buy a used car and you want all the facts right, if you gonna buy a used car, you want all the facts kayla must, is doing exactly that. he wants all the facts before he jumps in the vehicle and drives away with his new used car. i briefly what if he decides that he doesn't want this used car and he walks away from twitter. could that cost him? yes, it could cause them because we're seeing twitter and so slow prices slide and according to the um,

there was a twitter spat going back and forth between musk and the ceo of twitter. he this is the ceo. twitter explained how they work to get rid of bought accounts, making sure 5% or less accounts are fake. but musk tweeted back with a og pulling his explanation. clearly, musk also spoke at a tech conference over the weekend bringing up that 20% claim again, a number must says is critical to know for the financial health of twitter and for the sake of advertisers. he also said a lower price would not be out of the question. he's looking to get that. 44 billion dollar number now, as you may recall, the offer to buy twitter was at $54.20 a share on april 14th. but since then, twitter shares have declined. in fact, last night, twitter stock closed at $37 and $0.39 a share. so quite a bit lower than what he put in his offer and looking at the stocks this morning, twitter is declining yet again. until until then we continue to follow the stock with the saga continues. james darya. we'll continue to fall right here from san francisco. >> a story that seems to change dail

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everything he said on twitter and twitter circumstances was correct. not innovated as much as it should have in the last decade, five years. if he's one of the world's most amazing innovators, i think it is counter to what jason said. he has an interesting plan. the bot might be on target or not. but he is an active user, in the last couple days even. he has a sense of where the product should go. always a product oriented entrepreneur. so he has a plan and something he's interested in. obviously, the tweets of where we are going with the deal are not great for stability within the company, employees, and the future. emily: do you think he's serious? on the other side of the deal, would you be frustrated with the back-and-forth? >> of course you should be frustrated. pleading in the morning saying hold, then later that he is committed, needless thrashing on this. on the other hand, here's a person who revitalizes the industry, brings on the future in green cars and other things. a bunch of very interesting things possible with the innovation. i think t

shares of twitter are in tailspin.musk tweeted that his takeover is on hold until he gets more information about the proportion of fake accounts. in a recent finding, twitter found that fake accounts make up less than 5% of its users. some european union nations say that there may be time to consider a push back russian oil. the problem is that they cannot persuade hungry back the embargo, but they hope to perceive the rest on a proposed sanction package. the u.k. chancellor has said that the brexit settlement in northern ironman -- ireland is causing political harm. bloomberg television asked whether the u.k. will take action on its own. >> no decision has been taken. our pressurant best preferences always been to take a print we are going to engage with our counterparts in europe about how we can find resolution to some of the very real challenges of the protocol that is causing. >> you can get more on that story from our bloomberg u.k. website, the premier destination for financial news in britain. visit bloomberg.c

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big breaking news this afternoon, even must twitter take over. is it gonna have to weeks of uncertainty? elan musk struck a deal to buy twitter at a price. we have a 44000000000 fox. this means that the world's richest man is going to effectively control one of the most influential platforms in the internet. this is a big my little. there is a lot of speculation around what this means, but the chance off eat on most and his vision for what you are to ship to come. he campaigned on free speech and he said, i'm buying the company to make it more free. we don't know what he will do. he's made vague illusions to the concept of free speech, but hasn't said much about what that actually means to him or how that might impact the policies of the platform, quarters or zone somebody is gonna jump in or zone slick. okay. you're in the arena . let's go when a lot of researchers suspect is that, ah mosque is going to find out just how hard it is to moderate a site like twitter and change things on, on a wholesale way. we have a tendency to paint him as a kind

outcomes for twitter. tesla is still a car coming so it doesn't fall in the universe we follow closely. emily: i knew you would have a take. robert and dan, good to have you. we will see what next week holds. coming up, a warning to startups trying to survive the market meltdown. my next guest says crowdfunding could be the answer. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: belts tightening across the board and startups also feeling the pain, with valuations cut and layoffs underway. for more, i am joined by johnny price. we see what is happening in public markets, it is a lot more difficult to understand exactly what is happening in the private markets. what are you seeing? how much uncertainty and panic is there? johnny: there's a lot of uncertainty. that is the right word. i think we are seeing less contraction, especially early stage. i think growth stage is contracting more in recent months. i think we are seeing less to date. mixed reactions from vcs and founders i'm talking to. but obviously i'm not sure if you sa

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you on mosque says he's putting his bid to by twitter on temporary hold, claiming twitters official stats under estimate the number of fake and spam accounts and platform. that's racing speculation. the mosque might be getting cold feet on a deal in a follow up tweet mosque insisted he was still committed to buying the social media company. that's our show. find out more aligned, they'll be dot com slash business also on you too. thanks for watching. hello there i am, the moon. you all know me at least by side. like feel if you know my secret, would you like to know them? discover what i can offer and why everyone suddenly wants to visit me and come and take a close. tomorrow to do on d, w. greedy and uncompromising oh, oh. from the street to a steel mill, urban art meets world heritage. international artists have once again transformed the fo, coming an iron works into a unique art site hero, macs in 60 minutes. bob, d. w. o, a real natural spectacle in an improved world. a meeting of the little known whale sharks, the remote island of saint own. ah, it is a testament to the home of the

be on twitter. this should be in a 13d right now. the s.e.c. at some point is going to say something about this they are already upset about it. >> upset about stuff that goes back to the original tesla buyout and also upset about the way the original twitter >> from elon's perspective, he got away with all of it. he negotiated all of it over twitter and with the board maybe he thought he could do it again. this feels like the step the regulators cannot ignore at this point. >> yeah. >> they have to move faster. >> we will see >>> we have more that we will talk about and this story for the next three hours we have another big story. coinbase taking a hit from the crypto selloff stock bouncing back. we have interview we will show you with the company's cfo about the issue of whether accounts are protected and what happens in the event of a bankruptcy >>> later, making saense of the chaos with jeremy allaire. you are watching "squawk box" here on cnbc ♪ ♪ bonnie boon i'm calling you out. everybody be

he's questioning what twitter is saying by saying we want more clarity because twitter put out sec filing he doesn't believe it you think? james: yeah, i suppose maybe it's an estimate and he wants to know how they got to that number and maybe goes into the strategy and he needs to figure out how much is real and how much is phoney conversation generated by computers and people with ill-intent that are hiding their identities. but, yeah, this -- it could be bumpy ride to closing. twitter executives probably knew that already. maria: ken mahony this is one more question with a market that's been with questions. look at what happened to crypto, crashing $2 billion. 1.7 trillion in losses from the highs, bitcoin plunging below 26,000 for the first time in six months now it is bouncing this morning up to 30,271 but you also had terra usd plunging as well and, of course, breaking the buck. what's your thought on the crypto mess and whether or not this represents a dot-com dejavu back in 2001 when we had hopes about dot com until we didn't. >> there's a lot of dejavu and the onus is you can tra

elon musk is going to own twitter.hat going to change this election cycle and those that follow? >> i think the most important part of elon musk owning twitter is about free speech. hands down. the most important part. the social media networks are so focused on curating what all of us see and read every day, they really eroded free speech as you and i knew growing up. i know elon is deeply committed to the idea of freedom of expression. free speech does not necessarily mean good ideas to be clear. but to have a robust debate around ideas is how we come to recent conclusions and showing both sides of the story is important. hunter biden laptop disappearing into the abyss of a cover-up of a large social media companies -- made the news franchise as a really terrifying story. with that change the election? probably not, but should american voters be entitled to know about this information? absolutely. if we want our democracy to work, we need people who have the time and the ability to access the relevant information on

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to me, twitter is all about product. i think it needs -- you know, i think it needs -- products, and you know that may lead to subscription i think the current product, is there a subscription, you know, opportunity in the current product, i don't think so. >> it's all about the product, indeed i want to make sure we hear your thoughts on funco, and understand why both you and bob iger are so enthusiastic about this toy company why are you making this big investment >> on a short-term basis, it's a company that's growing almost 60% a year and we were able to buy it for, you know, give or take a six multiple, which is pretty good mark and bargain, even in today's stock market they've got a more macrolong-term basis this is one of the great pop culture opportunities. we hat tcg has been working on this a couple months we believe they have -- we think this is a pop culture monetization machine they have movies, music, sports figures, anime figures, et cetera, and they have wide scale distribution on target, amazon, walmart,

tom: does twitter have scale with or without musk?always been great about having that immovable force called scale. does twitter that you perceive have scale? >> scale for a niche platform. this has been a critique of a lot of companies. they thought they could be facebook, they thought they could be something universal. they were never more than a niche. they shot for the stars and got to the moon. that's ok. they are big enough to be a very important player. they are really important for communications in general. lisa: how much is the back-and-forth, and frankly, the noise around elon musk and twitter deteriorating value of the company by virtue of morale when it comes to employees, as well as the confidence that people have in the reality of what's being said? >> it's been really damaging from a long-term perspective. the good news is that i think for most marketers, you know, we represent the largest, they want to use twitter as it is now. the work twitter has been doing toward building a safer platform has been really useful, re

his twitter in the same boat? ed: yeah, twitter is vulnerable. about advertising in the first thing to suffer in a weaker microenvironment's advertisers or money, especially -- pull money especially when they have concerns about consumer confidence. i'm sure shareholders will ask about the future of twitters at is this during the meeting. kriti: ed ludlow joining us outside of twitters headquarters in san francisco, thank you as always. let's continue the conversation on twitter and bring in and cam partners executive director and really dig into this issue -- in m km partners executive director and really dig into the issue. we heard about these macroeconomic fears. how much of the fears will seep into the twitter story? >> [indiscernible] twitter does more brands in the first thing as an said, the first thing they would pull back is brenda spend. so this will not work in a vacuum. they will definitely see headwinds compared to what snap a seeing come of the industry is seeing, and others are seeing. kriti: i have to ask about whether some of th

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and a new update on twitter. the latest fallout over allegations the company is selling your private data. we speak with an expert on this in just a f welcome back. despit the recent mass shootings, the national rifle association is moving forward with its annual conference in houston tomorrow. joe khaleel investigates the nra's massive influence on lawmakers and how it possibly impacts u.s. policy. >> time after time, and kids in this country are panicking. they're panicking. but this continues to be the new normal and congress does nothing mass shooting after mass shooting. do you think there's anything that actually some common ground >> we wish all? well, one, i need to understand what the circumstances were. it seems congress never fails to fail on any solutions to these horrific crimes. one alleged possible reason why the money and power of the national rifle association, one of the largest lobbying organizations in the world spending tens of millions of dollars each year on political races and assets. in f

more of elon musk's vision for twitter. musk telling potential investors he could return twitter to the public markets at a later date, this according to dow jones. musk considering staging an ipo of twitter in as little as three years. two are shares unchanged in light trading. we will have much more on that later in this hour. coming up, a seismic shock hits the u.s. supreme court. we will get the latest from washington and how some companies are responding. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> this opinion is just off-the-wall. i'm really shocked that alito had written it, assuming he did. >> this is the result of a decades long campaign by extremists and extremist republicans to overturn roe v. wade. >> i would be more shocked if the other justices in the majority were to sign on to this opinion. >> this is the issue that can decide elections, at least as far as women are concerned. >> are people on both sides of this issue -- there are people on both sides of this issue. what we need to do as being good participants i

. -- pay for twitter.ther options you can take, if you can show that there is a material adverse advent -- event, some change to the business that materially, for a sustained. of -- period of time would change the outlook. he would have to show this, he would have to say, twitter, i'm not going to this deal until you prove to me that bots make up fewer than 5% of account. he also waived his right to due diligence when he was going about this deal and presented that as something that was a vote in favor of the deal. he said he would not do due diligence, he does not have a leg to stand on. finally, twitter is made public disclosures about the fact that estimates bots makeup fewer than 5% of account. insecurity filings have said, and most recent one, that the number could be higher than that. the people that i talked to say a judge would be hard-pressed to agree with musk on this. what could happen, he could try to walk away, twitter could take him to court, and then in order to avoid a lengthy protracted co

all because of bots, or so he says, on twitter. we will break down what's happening. ♪ ♪ >>> good evening. i am raj mathai. the story of the day has to be the schoolteachers who helped rescue people from that burning building. two teachers joining us in just a few minutes. we start with another big story. the three-year-old girl who died after an hour's long month. that little girl died at a small church located inside of a home in san jose. tonight, two more people, the girls grandfather and uncle, are now charged in the death. the mom already facing charges. the men charged today are both named renee hernandez. the elder is also the pastor at the church. court documents show the family believed the little girl was possessed by demons. the girl would wake up in the middle of the night screaming and crying. claudia hernandez held the little girl at the church behind the house there for 12 hours as they tried to rid her body of demons. >> o'reilly doe was strangled notable times to the point of consciousness. she had fingers shoved

the left is none to bit of a meltdown on twitter are you optimistic about elon musk controlled twitter an free or be full of disinformation? >> i think it is a good start in the direction of free speech. i was is very revealing to see how the left has reacted to elon musk would not things won't amplify the right or a limit the reach of liberal content on twitter but just said he's going to bring political neutrality back to content moderation decision has caused the left to go into such a tizzy revealing how the left sees the role of social media. but the left in a lot of ways has to rely on making their opinion seen beyond question that do not hold up under scrutiny. they have really come to rely on the censorship of dissent from their ideas or talk about the vaccine or transit gender agenda for children the censorship to support its policies for think has been very interesting to see how the political left has reacted to the idea that we might have political neutrality on this major platform. it striking to be our democratic strategist to support the democratic candidates is striking