Elon Musk: Twitter warrior, satellite supremo … diplomat? | The Listening Post

Not content with manufacturing cars, generating energy, getting into space travel - Elon Musk is in the midst of a $44bn takeover of Twitter. Now he has also been involved in foreign policy conflicts - from Russia-Ukraine to China and Taiwan. Musk clearly considers himself a geopolitical player, but he is entering a world in which he has no expertise, just interests.

Contributors: Chris Stokel-Walker - Technology journalist & author, TikTokBoom Peter Micek - General counsel, Access Now Jason Jay Smart - Special correspondent, Kyiv Post Siva Vaidhyanathan - Professor of media studies, University of Virginia; author, Anti-social Media

On our radar: Rupert Murdoch is on the verge of yet another business move, wanting to combine the two halves of his media empire: the TV side - Fox Corp - with the online news business - News Corp. Producer Meenakshi Ravi explores how the merger is much more an exercise in succession planning than a business deal in itself.

Striking Back: UK’s Unions vs the Media: With the United Kingdom in a state of political disarray, a rare wave of work stoppages has put trade unions – and the media’s treatment of them – into the spotlight. Following successive rail strikes, right-wing newspapers have blamed the unions for travel disruptions, but one union leader - Mick Lynch - has flipped the script – putting journalists on the defensive over their habitual anti-union approach. Daniel Turi reports on the coverage of labour issues in the British media.

Contributors: Aditya Chakrabortty - Senior economics commentator, The Guardian Julia Langdon - Former political editor, The Sunday Telegraph; former political editor, The Daily Mirror; chairwoman, British Journalism Review Nicholas Jones - Former industrial correspondent, BBC

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