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Base case damages model, so we see, today's settlement is complete vindication and really a message that as your opening, said, lies do have consequences . um, and it's about having coming back to the shared facts because ultimately we can agree or disagree on issues even to the most profound importance. we have to have shared facts in this society to have a functioning democracy, and i think today's settlement was a real step in that direction. and so what i hear from you is that there is this acknowledgement in the statement, plus the money from the settlement. there was no apology in this s...

Could have gone all the way to verdict and under defamation law. you don't get an apology. you get money. and so what we achieved here with the statement that fox made with the certainty of money and again from our damages. we had a base case damages model, and then we had a growth damages model, and the settlement today was above our base case damages models, so we see. today's settlement is complete vindication and really a message that as your opening, said, lies do have consequences , and it's about having coming back. to the shared facts, because ultimately we can agree or disagree on iss...

>> in the long term, ai may become itogenous and take over the world but in the short term it's being used by politicians to control what you think, to end your independent judgment and erase democracy on the eve of a presidential election. elon musk is very worried about that. he told us about his plan to stop it. >> what's happening is they're training the ai to lie. >> yes. >> it's bad. >> to lie. >> to lie. >> that exactly right and to with hold information should be lie and,, yes, exactly, to either comment on some things, not comment on other things, but not to say what the data actually...

>> sorry. >> [chuckle] >> my timing was terrible for because right before advertising plummeted. >> you caught the high water mark i noticed. >> yeah. i must be a real genius here. my timing is amazing. at least twice as much as it should have been bought for. but some things are priceless. so, the, whether losing money or not that was the secondary issue compared to ensuring the strength of democracy and free speech is the bed rock of a functioning democracy. >> yes. >> and the speech needs to be as transparent and truthful as possible so we've got a huge push on twitter to be as truthful as ...

It struck a chord with another high—profile tweeter — elon musk. "free speech is essential to a functioning democracy," he tweeted. "do you believe twitter rigorously adheres "to this principle?" a month later, in april 2022, musk launched a takeover bid. six, five, four, three, two, one... elon musk is the second—richest man in the world. his spacex rockets and tesla electric cars have made him a globalfigure. sources tell the associated press elon musk has taken over twitter. the twitter takeover- appears to be complete, with elon musk at the helm. musk is expected to address twitter e...