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Howard: yeah, no question about that. let me get you both in on the story we keep coming back to which is elon musk taking a poll, reine shading -- reinstating donald trump the on twitter. trump says he doesnt see any reason, hes sticking with social, but i personally think its only a matter of time. thoughts. >> i think if he can focus on facebook, if he gets back on there, thats a much better use for his voters. twitter is not real life. howard: ive noticed. >> theres not a single time that a ...

Yeah. [laughter] >> i can get through with it. this is where i, you know, i dont know how many people he actually needs to run that place officially. now -- efficiently. now, its a capital the intensive operation just to do all the little things you can cowith a tweet. it take as people and manpower. there is a point, a tipping point, where if you lose too many people, youre going to blow up the system. i dont know where we are, im not an expert at this, but i will say -- howard: i was just goin...

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>> i want to know if elons going to make every decision an on line poll, and im going to have to pay more attention -- [laughter] howard: something like 15 million people. >> mostly people, some bots. [laughter] i think that democrats should very much want to have donald trump back on twitter. i think that its just beneficial to them. it puts it more in the mindset of never going away, of always being on peoples minds, and i think thats just unquestionably good for democrats going into the next ...

Because its unnecessary, and it will slow down the investigation. >> and its too late, a lot of people on my side are saying this should have come earlier. a couple of things here. you know, a lot of people as weve seen in the midterms have moved on from donald trump. and i think some of those people who have moved on or are on the fence might come back to trump, and i had one person on twitter say in the other day, just because of this alone. because this feeds into his narrative of him being t...

Back, and is there even a case -- i mean, he can decide what he wants to do to, but is there even a case that a declared candidate for president more than two years after january 6th should not be allowed on twitter? the point is its quite a megaphone gone -- >> if trump goes out and says, you had it coming, my guess is elons going to take it away real fast. sooner or later the temptation is going to be too great, but when trump says something particularly crazy on traffic court social, everybod...

Pledge. that must put out, so therefore, the department and caused many. and so it raises questions about what the future of content moderation is at twitter, and thereby a feature of trump, and other controversial accounts. roth, the executive who was taxed with overseeing much of that, but for more than a week ago now, and you have just avoid, or people with institutional knowledge about how twitter has kept heat and balance off the platform. >> weve got a mention of the ftc in the intro to yo...

Allergies dont have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! flonase all good. >> elon musk management of his 44 billion dollar twitter deal, has put the social media platform on dead watch. the hashtag, r.i.p. twitter, has been trending with users learning of another mass exodus of employees this week, and then an email to employees on wednesday, musk told those who are made to commit to a quote, extremely hard core work env...

Remaining 3700 employees offered to leave the company. part of the exodus included engineers in charge of multiple, critical systems. that number had been reduced to one maybe even zero, according to the washington post. purely after, this threat of insults calling musk names like supreme parasite and bankruptcy baby, where projected onto the walls of twitter headquarters. musk however is seemingly unfazed, and instead of fixing the problems, he is just stirring the pot. last night he tweeted ou...

Hes got that consent order with the ftc, and now congress is looking into his business. >> so, both current and former ftc officials ive talked to say that elon musk should be very worried. twitter has been under a consent order with the ftc for more than a decade because of past alleged abuses of users data. when a company is under an order like this, it gives the ftc power to bring fines when it finds it violates, and again, twitter actually, earlier this year, already reached another settleme...