Politics

Elon Musk Wants to Run Twitter So He Can Have Friends

THE NEW ABNORMAL

Media Matters President and CEO Angelo Carusone talks Elon Musk’s questionable desire to buy and become CEO of Twitter and Tucker Carlson’s reaction to The New York Times’ pieces.

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New Abnormal co-host Molly Jong-Fast is still confused by Elon Musk’s desire to buy Twitter and become its CEO, but she and Media Matters President and CEO Angelo Carusone came up with a theory on Tuesday’s episode: He wants to make the right-wing trolls who are nice to him happy.

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