Heard Tell w/ Andrew Donaldson for 26APR22

Elon Musk Buys Twitter, Hilarity/Panic Ensues; China; Joe Manchin; Gov’t/LE Data Collection w/David McGarry

Your Heard Tell for Tuesday, April 26th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on Elon Musk and Twitter agree to terms for the Tesla billionaire to buy the social media platform, but is the caterwauling on the left of the end of free speech, democracy, and the the human race justified, or is the Musk online fans avatar of the moment going to save free speech, Twitter, and solve all the worlds problems…we’ll cut through the noise of that. We talk national narratives in the news media, and use some new polling data in West Virginia about Senator Joe Manchin to examine if the last two years of headlines matches what his constituents think. Guest David McGarry of Young Voices joins to break down so very questionable legal, moral, and ethical issues with law enforcement’s TRAC program, which the federal government is mandating collected data on money wire transfers go through a third party company. Plus, David and Andrew discuss if our online debates over privacy have left the word with little meaning in a time that issues of information security have never been more…