Rep. Ro Khanna: ‘We Need to Make Sure that Twitter Isn’t Run by [Elon Musk]’

BLACKWELL: “Well, let’s talk about one of those social media companies. Over the weekend, in response to something that Secretary Hillary Clinton tweeted, Elon Musk tweeted a Link to some baseless report about — here it is — about relationship, potentially, or something about Paul Pelosi. He later deleted it, but what does this episode tell us about how he likely intends to manage this platform? What do you take away from this episode?”
KHANNA: “Well, I hope what Elon Musk will do is create an independent governing structure for Twitter. I agree that we need to remove the many bots on Twitter. That actually is a problem in the conversation. But beyond that, just like CNN doesn’t have corporate owners making decisions of who can come on your news program, and just like ‘The Washington Post’ isn’t run by Jeff Bezos, we need to make sure that Twitter isn’t run by the corporate owner but has independent governance boards and principals.”