New Twitter Boss, Musk Under Fire, Debt Ceiling Drama, CNN-Trump Tangle

Musk Under Fire [01:01]

Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk (Rest of the World, 4/27/23)
Twitter accused of censorship in India as it blocks Modi critics (Guardian, 4/4//21)
Erdoğan may discuss Twitter’s past censorship with Elon Musk (Daily Sabah, 12/15/22)
Elon Musk met with Erdogan to discuss Tesla’s and SpaceX’s cooperation with Turkish firms (Insider, 11/8/12)
Turkish Election Goes to Runoff After Erdogan Takes Lead in First Round (WSJ, 5/15/23)
Tech Bosses Are Letting Dictators Censor What Americans See (Yahoo!, 4/19/23)
How Big Tech Silences American Voices Against Tyranny Abroad (Observer, 8/3/19)
When Tech Companies Bow to Foreign Censorship Laws: What’s an Investor to Do? The Motley Fool, 4/20/19)
Elon Musk Obediently Censors Twitter When Dictator Tells Him To (Futurism, 5/15/23)
Elon Musk Is Almost Done Wreaking Havoc As Twitter’s CEO (NY Magazine, 5/12/23)
Three reasons why Linda Yaccarino makes sense as Elon Musk’s pick for Twitter CEO (Semafor, 5/12/23)
Elon Musk picks NBC’s Linda Yaccarino as new Twitter CEO (WaPo, 5/11/23)
Elon Musk slammed for ‘censoring’ Twitter in Turkey ahead of pivotal election — but CEO defends move (NY Post, 5/13/23)

Debt Ceiling Drama [18:42]

Biden to Trim Planned Overseas Trip to Focus on Debt Ceiling (WSJ, 5/16/23)
Intensifying debt talks threaten rare GOP unity (Politico, 5/15/23)
A $1 trillion platinum coin could save the US from economic catastrophe in less than a month (Insider, 5/3/23)
Why I Changed My Mind on the Debt Limit (NYT, 5/7/23)
Invoking the 14th Amendment to dodge the debt limit is risky, Biden aides fear (WaPo, 5/8/23)
House Republicans are signaling they now want to include border legislation in their list of demands for a debt ceiling deal. (Politico, 5/12/23)
Debt-Ceiling Talks’ Late Start Amps Up Pressure on Congress (WSJ, 5/15/23)
Trump Call for Debt Default Echoed by House Extremists (NY Magazine, 5/12/23)
A Boring Plan for Managing the Debt Limit (Very Serious, 1/28/23)
Mint the coin? Buy back bonds? 7 ‘gimmicks’ for dodging the debt limit. (WaPo, 1/29/23)
Paul Krugman, A Few Ways Out of the Debt Ceiling Mess (NYT, 4/18/23)
Paul Krugman, Doing Whatever It Takes on Debt (NYT, 5/4/23)
Previous Debt Ceiling Fights Offer Clues to How This One Will End (Time, 4/19/23)
Yellen: Different system needed to end repeated standoffs over US debt ceiling (AP, 5/11/23)
Debt ceiling has become a ‘crazy kind of double jeopardy on government operations’: Paul Krugman (Yahoo, 5/12/23)
Fmr. Sen. Judd Gregg on debt ceiling standoff: We’re in much more dangerous ground than 2011 crisis (CNBC, 5/15/23)
Biden will get ‘boxed in’ if Congress doesn’t raise debt ceiling, says Laurence Tribe (CNBC, 5/15/23)

CNN-Trump Tangle [32:48]

CNN Went Full Jerry Springer (Atlantic, 5/11/23)
No Playing Ostrich With Trump (NYT, 5/13/23)
Anderson Cooper addresses criticism about Trump town hall (CNN, 5/12/23)
Trump & his audience’s Misogyny & Cruelty are disgusting (Pod Save America, 5/14/23)
Analysis: CNN faces harsh criticism after Trump unleashed a firehose of lies during its live town hall (CNN, 5/11/23)
CNN’s Donald Trump Town Hall Was Essentially a Campaign Rally (Vanity Fair, 5/11/23)
Here Are Five Rules for the Media When They Cover Trump (Bulwark, 5/16/23)
CNN leadership under fire after ‘disastrous’ Trump town hall (WaPo, 5/11/23)
‘Profoundly irresponsible’: Ocasio-Cortez rips ‘atrocious’ Trump town hall (MSNBC, 5/10/23)
CNN town hall with former President Donald Trump (CNN, 5/11/23)

Updates

Supreme Court Upholds California Law on Humane Treatment of Pigs (NYT, 5/11/23) 
Court upholds California animal-welfare law (SCOTUS Blog, 5/11/23)
Sundar Pichai, CEO Google I/O Bard Announcement (Google, 5/11/23)
You Can Now Try Google’s Bard Chatbot, an Alternative to ChatGPT (CNET, 5/12/23) 
(8 things that Google Bard can do, but ChatGPT cannot (Business Insider, 5/13/23)
Google Bard hits over 180 countries and territories—none are in the EU (Arstechnica, 5/12/23)