Does Elon Musk Want Free Speech or Attention?

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Renee DiResta is an expert on tech policy, influence operations, and algorithms, managing research at the Stanford Internet Observatory. She joins Jon to break down Elon Musk buying Twitter, explaining his envisioned reforms and making the case that Elon Musk fundamentally misunderstands free speech on the internet. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, go to crooked.com and Offline. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.

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0:00.0	I used to periodically ask people on Twitter,
0:02.6	why do you think you're being censored?
0:05.2	This was back in 2018 when we could have these conversations.
0:08.3	One thing that people said a lot was,
0:10.6	my friends don't see everything I post.
0:13.0	This question of open sourcing the algorithm,
0:16.1	it's being processed as you either love the idea
0:18.5	and you're like pro-free speech and pro-transparency
0:21.2	or you think the idea is ridiculous,
0:22.9	which is where large numbers of people in tech have come down,
0:25.6	because they're like what they're going to show an ML model
0:28.7	with no training data, no data.
0:31.6	I have no idea what it would show.
0:34.9	I have no idea what it would show.
0:35.9	What do people think they're going to see?
0:40.8	I'm John Fabro, welcome to offline.
0:45.1	Hey everyone, my guest this week is Renee DeResta,
0:48.3	the research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory
0:51.6	and an expert on tech policy,
0:53.4	influence operations and algorithms.
0:56.0	Basically, the perfect resume for the topic
0:58.4	we couldn't possibly have avoided talking about this week.
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