338: Are Social Media Platforms Killing Our Democracy? (with Imran Ahmed)
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Host Reed Galen is joined by Imran Ahmed, the Founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). They discuss CCDH’s latest legal victory against Elon Musk and Twitter, why our democracy’s stability is threatened by unregulated social media platforms and accompanying disinformation, and why balancing innovation with safety and prosperity is crucial for the future of technology and society. For more on this, be sure to check out the work of Imran Ahmed and CCDH…especially their Parent’s Guide and recent PSA discussed in this episode. For more from Reed Galen, be sure to subscribe to “The Home Front”. If you’d like to ask a question or share a comment with The Lincoln Project, send an email to podcast@lincolnproject.us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it's Reed. Before we get started, I just want you to understand that what we're |
| 0:04.7 | fighting is multi-front battle. There will be the airwaves, there will be the internet, there will be |
| 0:11.2 | neighborhoods and town hall meetings, but all of it matters. It all ladders up to making sure that |
| 0:16.8 | if we've done our part in our cities, in our counties, in our states, that we will be victorious |
| 0:23.2 | in November. I thank you so much for listening. I hope you share this podcast with your friends, |
| 0:29.1 | your families, and your colleagues, and anybody who wants to know more about this fight. |
| 0:33.2 | Thanks, everybody for listening. And now on with the show. |
| 0:44.2 | Thank you. Thanks, everybody for listening. And now on with the show. Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. |
| 0:46.4 | I'm your host, Reid Gaylor. |
| 0:48.6 | Today, I'm joined by Emron Amit, the CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate for CCDH. |
| 0:55.1 | CCDH is an organization whose mission is to protect human rights and civil liberties online, |
| 0:59.6 | particularly by holding social media companies accountable, |
| 1:02.7 | and recently emerged victorious at a lawsuit with Elon Musk and X, formerly known as Twitter. |
| 1:08.6 | Amran is an authority on social and psychological malignancies on social media, |
| 1:12.7 | such as identity-based hate, extremism, disinformation, and conspiracy theories. |
| 1:16.8 | Well, we've got no shortage of any of that. |
| 1:18.5 | Today, he's coming to us from the mother country, the UK. |
| 1:22.5 | Imran, welcome back. |
| 1:24.1 | It's great to be here. |
| 1:25.8 | So it's been a little while since we had you on. |
| 1:28.3 | So why don't you, if you don't mind for the audience, remind us about your background and how you came to found CCDH and what it is you guys do. |
| 1:37.3 | So the Center for Canterian Digital Hate had its origins in 2016 when I was working in British politics and two things happened pretty much |
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