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Elon, Hunter, and Trump’s Call To 'Terminate' The Constitution

Elon, Hunter, and Trump’s Call To 'Terminate' The Constitution

What does a calculated leak from Elon Musk to a journalist suggest about partisan fairness in the realm of social media, and what does it mean for responsible reporting?

Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

December 7, 202225m 20s

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What does a calculated leak from Elon Musk to a journalist suggest about partisan fairness in the realm of social media, and what does it mean for responsible reporting?

On Today's Show: 
Michael Grynbaum, a media correspondent for The New York Times, explains controversies in the tech and media worlds surrounding Elon Musk's leak of internal Twitter documents to journalist Matt Taibbi. Musk handed over a trove of documents related to Twitter's decision to limit posts related to a story about Hunter Biden in 2020. The nature of the leak and Taibbi's story have set off debates about Musk's leadership and media ethics.