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Elon Musk has another terrible idea for Twitter and so I hope Mark Zuckerberg kicks his butt in their on-again-off-again cage match. Also, the Republican debate next week is a clown show. Listen Here:

WBT afternoon host Brett Winterble joins Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson & Beth Troutman with his take on Elon Musk apparently switching the name of his social media platform from "Twitter" to "X," and the new Barbie and Oppenheimer movies,

Our legal expert Bill Graham joins Good Morning BT with Bo & Beth with his take on Trump-supporting attorney Lin Wood giving up his law license as he faced a disbarment hearing, the settling of an alienation of affection lawsuit against NC House Speaker Tim Moore, and how to protect intellectual property when it comes to products that may bear certain similarities, as in the way Meta's new Threads social media platform may have similarities to Twitter.

Cyber security expert Theresa Payton joins Good Morning BT with Bo & Beth with her take on the debut of Meta's "Threads" social media platform, a new competitor to Twitter.

Seemingly out of nowhere, a social media influencer on Twitter amassed a huge following spreading Democratic messages and then disappeared. The account was suspended after it tweeted a racist interpretation of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling. Listen Here:

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced that he’s running for president in 2024 during a Twitter event that was plagued with technical difficulties. CNN’s Sara Fischer and Abby Phillip discuss the announcement.   Listen Here :

Cyber security expert Theresa Payton joins Good Morning BT with Bo Thompson & Beth Troutman with her take on recent Congressional hearings where OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other artificial intelligence (AI) experts asked Congress to regulate and manage AI for the ethical and proper uses of it, and a new scam on Twitter in which a bot tags a user and claims that the user has been doxxed.

Pete’s simple question about whether a 7:00 pm public government meeting was held under the “cloak of night” prompts a barrage of racist, bigoted, and homophobic tweets from the NC ACLU’s Deputy Director of Engagement. Listen Here:

In the latest reporting on the Twitter Files, Matt Taibbi outlines how media, universities, and politicians amplified the Hamilton 68 “dashboard that allegedly tracked Russian influence operations on Twitter. But the dashboard was, itself, disinformation. Listen Here:

According to Margot Cleveland, senior legal correspondent for The Federalist, the legacy media is ignoring the scandal of the Twitter Files because it implicates many of them, would require an apology, harm their sources, help Trump, and eliminate Russia as the bogeyman they need. Listen Here: