Havoc On the Platform, and Off

Land of the Giants

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Society & Culture, Business

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Twitter employees had always imagined the platform would be used for social good. Their idea was that free expression on the internet would lead to good things. But after the 2016 U.S. election, that notion would be put under stress. And Twitter would have to grapple with the question: what happens when its powerful superuser - who also happens to be the most powerful person in the world - creates havoc on the platform? Hosted by Peter Kafka (@pkafka) Be the first to hear next week's episode by following Land of the Giants on your favorite podcast app Follow @voxdotcom for more coverage of X/Twitter and Big Tech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:59.7	Molotov cocktails and gunfire, protesters furious over the police shooting of unarmed black
1:06.5	teenager Michael Brown, the National Guard, the National Guard now being deployed to the area,
1:12.2	the very latest overnight overnight and the new details
1:14.4	I was sitting on my coach and I saw the protests on CNN. In August 2014
1:20.8	De Ray McKesson was living in Minneapolis.
1:23.4	He was watching coverage that didn't make any sense to him.
1:26.3	And it looked like the wild protesters.
1:27.9	It was like, these people are nuts.
1:30.4	They don't care about community and they're destroying things.
1:33.0	This was another very tense night and police say that this was not civil disobedience.
1:39.4	This was aggression toward police. And I remember going on Twitter and Twitter was just telling a different story.
1:45.0	On Twitter it was the police is trying to kill us, this is crazy,
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