{"id":81969,"date":"2022-04-26T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=81969"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:20","slug":"elon-musk-to-acquire-twitter-carleton-experts-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2022\/elon-musk-to-acquire-twitter-carleton-experts-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter: Carleton Experts Available"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter: Carleton Experts Available\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University experts are available to discuss Elon Musk\u2019s purchase of Twitter for $44 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please feel free to contact these experts directly to arrange a time to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ian Lee<\/strong><br>\nProfessor, Sprott School of Business at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:ian.lee@carleton.ca\">ian.lee@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee is available to discuss the business dealings involved in this purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee has appeared multiple times before the House of Commons and Senate finance, banking, industry and trade committees. He has been in every Government of Canada budget lockup since 2008. He attended pre-budget consultations with the Minister of Finance in 2009 and 2011. His work has appeared in the annual publication How&nbsp;<em>Ottawa Spends<\/em>&nbsp;concerning Canada\u2019s retirement system, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, deficits, corporate income reform and the Liberal downsizing of 1995-97 and the Conservative Government downsizing of 2010-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on Lee visit:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sprott.carleton.ca\/profile\/ian-lee\/\">https:\/\/sprott.carleton.ca\/profile\/ian-lee\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dwayne Winseck<br>\n<\/strong>Professor, School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:Dwayne.Winseck@carleton.ca\">Dwayne.Winseck@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dwayne is the director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmcrp.org\/\">Canadian Media Concentration Research Project<\/a>&nbsp;and has been the lead Canadian researcher in the International Media Concentration Research Project since 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His research, data and views on media concentration and telecom, media and internet issues are well known and have been solicited or cited widely in the scholarly literature and by the Parliament of Canada, Canadian Senate, Department of Canadian Heritage, the CRTC, WTO, ITU, amongst others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on Winseck visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sjc\/profile\/winseck-dwayne\/\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sjc\/profile\/winseck-dwayne\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact<br>\n<\/strong>Steven Reid (he\/him)<br>\nMedia Relations Officer<br>\nCarleton University<br>\n613-265-6613<br>\n<a href=\"mailto:Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca\">Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow us on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom\">www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom<\/a><br>\nCOVID 19 Updates:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/\">https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University experts are available to discuss Elon Musk\u2019s purchase of Twitter for $44 billion. Please feel free to contact these experts directly to arrange a time to speak. Ian Lee Professor, Sprott School of Business at Carleton University Email: ian.lee@carleton.ca Lee is available to discuss the business dealings involved in this purchase. 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