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For your time? i haven't seen any tweets from your site. are you allowed now and back on or have you chosen not to launch yet? >> we're still locked down. twitter has been required that we delete a tweet that they didn't like in order for us to get back on the account. at this point i wouldn't really have expectation that we'd be unlocked. they have just accepted musk's bid. he isn't in control of the company at this point. we're waiting to see what happens. >> dana: how has it affected your business to be locked out of twitter? >> on the one hand it's good because it generates a lot of media ...

It takes a few months to -- for the whole thing to close. listen, here is the thing. the bottom line is elon taking over twitter from the financial aspect was pretty easy. i knew it, a lot of people didn't believe it. i knew it. this is a problematic company and the shareholders had to except it. it was this or nothing and a 38% premium over the stock price. now the cultural aspect will be interesting. the biggest cultural hurdle, i believe, will be changing exactly what type of content goes on twitter. how do you strike the balance between getting rid of the boughts, trolls and disgusting stu...

Today that said of americans on social media, 2/3 are on facebook but less than a quarter are on twitter. and i just wonder if the outsize attention given to twitter is more of a media fascination than it is for everyday americans? what do you think about that? >> well, i mean, musk has called it the defacto town square. twitter is a great place to go to listen. not a good place to interact with friends and family but to interact with people in the media, personalities. celebrities, hearing from government officials. there is all kinds of government officials making statements to the public on...

Of that backlog at chinese ports. the lockdown in china that started in mid-march have doubled the number of ships stacked up at china's largest port waiting for a spot to load. all of this signals more supply chain issues for the u.s. coming over the next few months. in 2020 china actually accounted for the single largest supplier of goods into the u.s. 20% of the imports came from china according to the u.s. trade representatives office. >> dana: a story to watch. thank you, edward. >> bill: well, he owns it. elon musk pulled off a twitter deal in 12 days. drawing intense criticism already f...

Ways. >> dana: this week they'll be on the hill demanding that build back better gets passed. we'll see how that goes. mark penn and kellyanne conway. good stuff. >> bill: the world's richest man to the owner of the social media company. elon musk at the helm of twitter in the fall. how it could revive the fight for free speech. the suspect in the murder of a new york mother of two shared a lot of violent videos online. d . digital tools so impressive, you just can't stop. what would you like the power to do?