Musk's Twitter, Mark's Metaverse and the future of the digital town square | The Big Story Podcast

Between Meta (formerly Facebook) losing $80 billion and Elon Musk’s fumbling start to his Twitter acquisition, it’s been a pretty good week for anyone who hates social media. But today’s guest argues that even if you never use these platforms, what happens to them impacts your life, simply because they’ve grown too influential to remain in the digital world.

So what does Mark Zuckerberg’s relentless pursuit of the Metaverse and Musk’s plans to shake up Twitter mean for the future of social media in general? And what does it mean for the future of the world that it influences?

GUEST: Jesse Hirsh, technologist and futurist

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