Has the Muskian Takeover Impacted Twitter As a Source of Legitimate News Reporting?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Guest-host Jefferson Smith sitting in for Thom Hartmann interviews Jonathan Nagler, Director, New York University's Center for Social Media and Politics, Co-Author - Who Votes Now? Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States. Defenders of truth and democracy have our work cut out for us in regards to battling online misinformation as we head into the 2024 presidential election.
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| 0:27.8 | This is the Tom Hartman program. This is the Tom Hartman program. I am Jefferson Smith, |
| 0:49.0 | honored to be with you. Happy gratitude season. Our next guest is Professor Jonathan Negler. |
| 0:56.8 | He's Professor Politics at NYU, the co-director of the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics. |
| 1:02.9 | The co-author of Who Votes Now, Demographics Issues in Equality and Turnout in the United States. |
| 1:09.7 | Professor, thanks for joining us. Yeah, happy to be here. All right, so we've talked to you before, |
| 1:17.2 | we talked to you just about a year ago on the Democracy Nerd podcast, and you made the comment |
| 1:23.2 | then, the Americans are awful at spotting fake news. This was before the current rise of chat |
| 1:31.1 | GPT. This was months before Elon Musk took over Twitter. Have we got any better at spotting fake |
| 1:37.4 | news in the past years since we last spoke? I'm not sure if people have gotten any better at spotting |
| 1:43.5 | it. I'm going to say I doubt it. I think what you pointed out is there's probably a lot more of it |
| 1:48.8 | at the spot, and the problem is we're not exactly sure how much there is at the spot. You mentioned |
| 1:54.7 | Elon Musk taking over Twitter. One of the biggest things that's happened on Twitter, |
| 2:00.1 | along with what's very visible to people in terms of when they use it is, it's gotten much harder |
| 2:05.2 | to get access to data. One of Musk's biggest changes was to essentially price academics out of |
| 2:11.9 | examining what's going on and anyone of examining what's going on on Twitter. |
| 2:16.3 | There's less transparency with Twitter, and it has a new name, and he is scared away a bunch of |
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