Elon Bans Journalists, Kills Spaces and Asks if He Should Quit

It’s been a tumultuous week for Twitter and Elon Musk.

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ABOUT

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and Kraken.

On today’s episode, NLW looks at the latest out of Twitter, including a dust-up about location doxxing and the journalists who were suspended as a result, a new policy banning links to external social networks and a poll from Elon Musk asking whether he should step down as CEO.

“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell and research by Scott Hill. Jared Schwartz is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. Music behind our sponsors today is “Back To The End” by Strength To Last. Image credit: Dan Mullan/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.

HOST

Nathaniel Whittemore

NLW is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as host of The Breakdown – the fastest-growing podcast in crypto. Whittemore has been a VC with Learn Capital, was on the founding team of Change.org, and founded a program design center at his alma mater Northwestern University that helped inspire the largest donation in the school’s history.