182 | Alex Kantrowitz: Twitter’s New Leadership, Moving on from the Facebook Whistleblower, and Questions About the Internet’s Future
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The Realignment
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🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Saga and Marshall here, welcome back to the realignment. |
| 0:03.6 | It's definitely not a buzzy new story anymore. |
| 0:12.0 | And I think there's a couple of reasons for that. |
| 0:13.8 | Number one is that Facebook scandal has become so commonplace to the fact, to the point |
| 0:19.8 | that it's now kind of boring. |
| 0:21.9 | You know, the one thing that people said after all these revelations came out, we saw |
| 0:24.7 | all the internal documents, all the internal conversations. |
| 0:27.0 | People were just kind of like, okay, well, we knew that. |
| 0:29.9 | And, you know, the reason was because, you know, we've had this reporting on this and |
| 0:34.8 | scandal after scandal, you know, one after the other. |
| 0:36.9 | And basically, there's no bad thing you could tell us about Facebook anymore. |
| 0:40.4 | That would really make us pay attention for more than a day or two. |
| 0:52.1 | We have an amazing episode for everybody. |
| 0:54.6 | It is with Alex Cantrowitz, our friend, over from the big technology newsletter. |
| 0:58.8 | Why? Because we had to react to the news of Twitter. |
| 1:02.2 | I know it might seem like slightly old news at this point, even though it's only been |
| 1:05.3 | less than a week. |
| 1:06.7 | But Jack is out, Paraga, Garwala's in, new policies are being announced. |
| 1:11.2 | What the hell does it all mean for the future of the internet, journalism? |
| 1:15.0 | I mean, the way that we all discourse with one another online, there's a lot that we |
| 1:19.8 | get into today, Marshall. |
| 1:21.2 | Yeah, the other thing we covered really, aside from a conversation around the future of |
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