Twitter’s Elon Musk Problem

<p>Elon Musk’s recent investment in Twitter has turned a high-profile and frequent user of the platform into the company’s largest stakeholder.</p><p>At first, the involvement of Mr. Musk, the C.E.O. of Tesla, was seen by the social media giant as a chance to gain a powerful ally. Instead, Twitter’s fate has suddenly become much harder to predict.</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/mike-isaac">Mike Isaac</a>, a technology correspondent for The New York Times.</p><p>Want more from The Daily? For one big idea on the news each week from our team, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-daily?module=inline">subscribe to our newsletter</a>. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Twitter has survived founder infighting, boardroom revolts and outside shareholder ire, but Mr. Musk is<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/11/technology/twitter-elon-musk-problem.html"> an activist investor unlike any other</a>.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p>