A Twitter Pill To Swallow
What A Day
What A Day
4.8 • 166 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk, who recently acquired Twitter for $44 billion, laid off about half of the company’s staff on Friday. The move also impacted teams that moderate content on the site. New York Times technology reporter Mike Isaac says that’s raising concerns about how well the platform can combat misinformation ahead of the midterm elections.
And in headlines: the UN’s annual climate summit opened in Egypt, President Biden’s top national security advisor has reportedly been in talks with his Russian counterparts over the war in Ukraine, and the National Park Service issued an unusual warning about psychedelic toads.
Show Notes:
- Vote Save America: Every Last Vote – https://votesaveamerica.com/every-last-vote/
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, November 7th. I'm Erin Ryan. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Josie Deffy Rice, and this is What A Day. |
| 0:12.0 | Or we don't know who created Be Real, |
| 0:14.0 | but we're trying to get them to be really short of vote. |
| 0:17.5 | Josie, this is giving me Pokemon Go to the Polls vibes, |
| 0:20.5 | and I do not like it. |
| 0:22.0 | I feel like we're that meme of Steve Buscemi trying to be like a 10th grader, you know? |
| 0:26.0 | How do you do fellow kids? |
| 0:27.5 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, the United Nations Annual Climate Summit kicked off in Egypt, |
| 0:35.5 | plus the National Park Service wants hikers to stop looking psychedelic toads. |
| 0:39.5 | Ugh, the kill joys, but first, it's election day Eve. |
| 0:42.5 | If you're like me, you probably think of this day as the least fun Eve in the calendar year. |
| 0:48.0 | It's like the sown of known unknowns, the night that the veil between punditry and reality is at its thinnest. |
| 0:54.0 | Okay, I didn't really know what that meant, but Aaron explained it to me, and I learned a lot. |
| 0:58.0 | She has my own personal Wikipedia. |
| 1:00.0 | I suggest looking it up. |
| 1:02.0 | Anyway, every election is its own animal, but as far as animals go, |
| 1:06.0 | this is a particularly weird one. |
| 1:08.0 | It's like a Liger, or like a... |
| 1:11.0 | A Jackalope? |
| 1:12.0 | A Jackalope. |
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