Elon Frees the Bird
Does it matter that the world’s richest man now owns Twitter?
The Media Show · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
Does it matter that the world’s richest man now owns Twitter? Elon Musk is the latest American billionaire to take control of an influential social media platform. How much will change?
Also in the programme, how the BBC's Africa Eye team investigated a tragedy on the Moroccan – Spanish border.
Guests: Peter Kafka, host of Recode Media, Danielle Citron, professor of law at University of Virginia and advisor to Twitter, Shona Ghosh, UK Deputy Editor at Insider, Benjamin Strick and Suzanne Vanhooymissen, journalists on BBC Africa Eye's Death on the Border investigation.
Presenter: Katie Razzall
Studio Engineer: Donald MacDonald
Producer: Helen Fitzhenry