Puck’s William Cohan tells “Nightcap’s” Jon Sarlin why Elon Musk might want to run Twitter into the ground. Plus, journalist Jacob Silverman predicts what could cause a true crypto apocalypse following the arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried. And the Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz explains why American tech giants want to make TikTok the boogeyman. To get the day’s business headlines sent directly to your inbox, sign up for the Nightcap newsletter.
00:00 – Welcome to "Nightcap"
00:30 – Elon Musk's "wild man" strategy
04:05 – Crypto Crash 2.0
08:04 – The TikTok Boogeyman
The real Nicola Tesla was certainly not a maniac. Running twitter down may actually help people mentally and the media, too.
@Eric Rich Twitter is going into the toilet . You need to invest now.
@Harold Moore okay any proof or is what msnbc told you lol. i am sure they will throw him out if he did not pay rent like anyone else lol any real news
@Eric Rich it’s already been reported by several outlets. Twitter was said to be worth 8 billion dollars and he bought it for 44 billion dollars. Lmao. The stupidest invest in the known universe.
@Acer Maximinus Oh no, it was much better when only liberals controlled the speech. Who want’s to hear other opinions?
@Eric Rich Yeah, baby. That’s what I’m talking about. Thanks
Let him go bankrupt!
There must some kind of responsibility leveled against ppl who text against ppl and that brings danger into their lives. This is a great problem and it’s getting worse.
There must some kind of responsibility leveled against ppl who text against ppl and that brings danger into their lives. This is a great problem and it’s getting worse.
Plus people who hurt other people’s feeling should be put in prison for being mean.
Just say what you mean, you want to go back to the old Twitter that was complicit with joining criminal government actors and cancelling, shadow banning people!
What danger and to whom?
Robert Le … that must have been you…. Yelling “Fire!! Fire!!” in a packed theater … 150 people ran out .. 2 were killed in the panic.
I’m sorry, I’ve answered your sarcasm with sarcasm…. but I’m sooo tired of the crazy conspiracy theories…. HUGE damage is done because of them!
I wish you well.
The thing everyone needs to remember is, there are no good billionaires. The things they have to do to get there would be appalling to most of us.
America has 400+ billionaires, not one of whom ever became Batman. ‘Nuff said.
@Dean F. Trump came darn close
@tom martinez I said “Batman,” not “Fatman.”
That’s a really insightful comment.
@Dean F. 😂😂😂
Man the left is salty about this whole Twitter stuff, yikes 😬 it’s like watching two children fight over a toy 🍿
Highly interesting content mate, and quite relevant to whats going on .. nice job
Musk to sink Twitter since bringing a sink to Twitter
He’s about to do the biggest scam in history 😳
Except it’s really against himself. He’s the only one going to be hurt when Twitter falls apart. Jack Dorsey is already creating a new social media platform that people can flee to instead of using Twitter. So it’s all on Elon. My guess is that he thinks he’s a god and can do no wrong. He’s going to be really shocked when it turns out he is just an Narcissistic idiot.
” I don’t wanna necessarily predict….eh ha ha bah” Sounds exactly like somebody burned by 3 previous predictions of bitcoins “death” gone wrong.
TikTok has a China version and a US version. The US version is extremely addictive, the China version is not and there may actually be a time limit for Chinese. This app needs to be banned until our government catches up to what the heck is going on.
The biggest problem is that the Chinese (who are known for hacking into other people’s accounts and data) may have put some kind of code into Tiktok that makes people less safe and steals their information. I used to use the Opera Browser because it was so freaking good. Then China bought it and I had to bail because, among other things, I bank online. Don’t ever trust software that has a Chinese connection.
china’s tik tok is called douyin. I don’t think it’s designed non-addictive, but it promotes a lot of government propaganda and censors all sorts of negative thinks about china (for example if you make videos in your home, and your home looks like you’re poor, you will be buried by the algorithm because china isn’t supposed to have poverty. same thing if you’re fat or disabled.). there may however be legally imposed time limits on using the app, as there have been on playing video games for the past year or two. the chinese government appreciates apps like douyin when they help to keep people in line (including by providing some entertainment to satisfy them), but they try to prevent internet usage from distracting citizens so much that they become less productive or less likely to have children.
I wonder how long it will be before Elon releases NFT cards of himself the way Donald has…?
Musk will claim his cards are ‘self-sentient’ and can solve world hunger.
And must shut down the guy who was tracking his plane on Twitter. So much for free-speech if it’s not the speech you want…
How can someone buy their own debt at the discount 🤯
That’s like creating money out of thin air.
It’s basically saying I’ll pay this debt but only if you take x% off. It’s like settling with the IRS or a debt collector – they say they’ll give you a discounted price if you pay $xxx right now.
I just want more disasters in crypto next year so prices of graphics cards will continue to drop until I can finally afford an upgrade 😁
“If you’re going through hell keep going.” —Winston Churchill
I’ve never been on Twitter, I never invested in crypto, and I don’t have a TikTok account. Sometimes, being an old fart has its advantages!
I totally agree.
Musk has a great strategy for proving that he’s one of the world’s biggest jerks.
I’m so glad he bought Twitter – it has completely exposed what an incompetent, juvenile fraud the guy is. The Tesla fraud will now unravel (FSD, robot etc) as a result and Musk will be far from the world’s richest person. Bubbles go POP.
She called it, It is an Algorithm. It gives you what you FEED it. Took me a while to understand why everyone was saying social media is full of negativity because my feeds are full of things like gardening, crafting, art, history, science, then I learned a bit about these algorithms and how they work. So, if your social media experience sucks, you only have yourself to blame.
Musk is damaging the Tesla brand. Where I used to like their cars, I would never consider it now because doing so would further enable crazy Musk.