Election Day 2020: The United States of Anxiety

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4 • 494 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Election Day 2020 is finally here. At this culmination of America’s anxieties, former Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos discusses social media’s strategies and obligations to curb misinformation ahead of the final results. In a podcast original interview, The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern shares how she found her anxiety fix in a social media blackout. Plus, regardless of the election outcome, Dr. Scott Gottlieb maps out a bumpy pandemic road ahead, and Joe, Becky, and Andrew consider the inevitability of civil unrest after all the votes are counted.

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0:00.0	This is Squawk Pod. I'm
0:03.4	C. NBC producer Katie Kramer. Today on our podcast.
0:07.0	Election Day 2020 and everyone is on edge.
0:10.2	There's going to be a significant portion of the population that doesn't accept the results of this.
0:14.0	Social media are towing the line between publisher and platform extra carefully today as they attempt to curb the spread of misinformation.
0:22.0	Facebook's former chief security officer Alex Stamos.
0:25.0	If Mark Zuckerberg says something as a Facebook employee
0:28.0	and it's on Facebook, Facebook is responsible for it.
0:31.0	What Facebook is not responsible for
0:33.2	is for what the president says
0:34.8	and for them carrying the president's content.
0:37.2	And an option to minimize the chaos
0:39.8	as we await election results
0:41.8	in an interview original to this
0:43.4	podcast the Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern explains why for her any
0:47.3	social media is too much social media. I now encourage you not to share because again there's so much chaos and
0:56.0	misinformation is the biggest issue on these platforms right now.
1:00.3	Plus political home stretch but what about the coronavirus pandemic?
1:05.0	Dr. Scott Gottlie.
1:06.0	It's a very grim couple of months that we face.
1:09.0	I think this is the last sort of acute phase of this pandemic that we need to go through and
1:14.3	things will get better in 2021.
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