How Facebook and Twitter are dealing with racist posts and Friend of Pivot Baratunde Thurston on why “now is the time to step up, show up, or shut up”
Pivot
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.2 • 9.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, this is Pivot from the Vox Media Podcast Network. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Cara Swisher. |
| 0:06.5 | And this has got Galway. |
| 0:08.4 | Cara, how are you doing? |
| 0:09.6 | Oh, I had some dental surgery this morning, but otherwise I am fine. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm a lot better than the rest of the country. |
| 0:15.0 | I think we just should get into this because rather than shitty chat because this is really, |
| 0:19.9 | this is the only story. |
| 0:20.9 | If we talk about big stories, this is the only story, which is civil unrest hits the |
| 0:24.5 | United States of America in a massive dose. |
| 0:28.1 | If you watched it unfold on social media, on cable everywhere, the killing of George |
| 0:32.1 | Floyd on top of years of social media videos that show black people dying at the hands of |
| 0:37.7 | police led to national protests in Minneapolis, Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, |
| 0:42.9 | Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and the list goes on. |
| 0:46.1 | Social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter are central to our understanding of how this |
| 0:49.8 | is unfolding in a place for a lot of misinformation. |
| 0:53.5 | By the way, dozens of Facebook employees in a virtual walkout today, Monday, after the |
| 0:57.8 | company refused to take down Trump's inflammatory posts about protesters over the weekend, meanwhile, |
| 1:03.3 | the president moved to an underground bunker, which apparently still has Twitter access because |
| 1:07.5 | he tweeted that he will be adding antifod to the United States terrorist list. |
| 1:11.9 | He also tweeted fake news, et cetera, et cetera. |
| 1:14.6 | Finally, there are also concerns that pictures of protesters on platforms could be used |
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