Elon, Hunter, and Trump’s Call To 'Terminate' The Constitution

What does a calculated leak from Elon Musk to a journalist suggest about partisan fairness in the realm of social media, and what does it mean for responsible reporting?

An episode of the Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast podcast, hosted by WNYC Studios, titled "Elon, Hunter, and Trump’s Call To 'Terminate' The Constitution" was published on December 7, 2022 and runs 25 minutes.

December 7, 2022 ·25m · Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

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Summary

What does a calculated leak from Elon Musk to a journalist suggest about partisan fairness in the realm of social media, and what does it mean for responsible reporting?

Episode Description

What does a calculated leak from Elon Musk to a journalist suggest about partisan fairness in the realm of social media, and what does it mean for responsible reporting?

On Today's Show:
Michael Grynbaum, a media correspondent for The New York Times, explains controversies in the tech and media worlds surrounding Elon Musk's leak of internal Twitter documents to journalist Matt Taibbi. Musk handed over a trove of documents related to Twitter's decision to limit posts related to a story about Hunter Biden in 2020. The nature of the leak and Taibbi's story have set off debates about Musk's leadership and media ethics.