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LEMIRE: "I think, first of all, let’s all be grateful that Walter Isaacson is going to write a fantastic book about Elon Musk, underway right now. But you’re right, he has certainly achieved remarkable things with Tesla and with the space program, but this is off the rails. And someone said recently, it’s apropos, that you could take almost any headline right now that has Musk’s name in it and swap out Musk for Trump, and it would still feel apropos. The chaos, the ego, the insults, and the fact that he is bringing down an institution — and Twitter is not the Republican Party, but it certainly feels like we’re in the dying days of this platform unless something changes quickly. And that’s what this is, and it’s a shame. To Katty’s point, I use it too, it is a great way to catch up on the headlines, it’s a great way to talk about things that you’re working on, but it feels corrupt and toxic. The number of — the hate speech has dramatically risen in recent days.“