Elon Musk’s glitchy Ron DeSantis show highlights doubts over right-wing pivot


The audio-only livestream with DeSantis was vexed by crashes and delays for nearly half an hour. The result was a tsunami of memes and comments mocking the right-wing Florida governor’s ‘failure to launch’ and raising new questions about whether billionaire Musk’s drastic cutbacks at Twitter have hurt the platform. — AFP

SAN FRANCISCO: Glitches marring the Twitter launch of Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign Wednesday put fresh dents in Elon Musk’s hopes of turning the network into a Fox News challenger, fueling doubts over the billionaire’s right-wing pivot.

Just a few hundred thousand people tuned in for the audio-only livestream with DeSantis, but even with that relatively small audience for a virtual online assembly – videogames such as Fortnite regularly host audiences in the millions – it was vexed by crashes and delays for nearly half an hour.

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