How Much Have Facebook And Twitter Changed Since 2016?

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🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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How much has Big Tech changed since the 2016 election? Sam is joined by Washington Post tech reporters Elizabeth Dwoskin and Tony Romm. They chat about Facebook and Twitter and how their platforms and views on free speech have evolved since the last presidential election. Sam also chats with Washington Post columnist and satirist Alexandra Petri about her book of essays Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why and how she uses humor to uncover bigger truths.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Sam Zahbadi.
0:03.3	This week on the show, the role of Big Tech in 2020.
0:08.3	All right, let's start the show.
0:10.1	Hey y'all, from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders.
0:14.4	It's been a minute.
0:15.6	As my aunt Betty said, this week we're talking tech.
0:18.9	I have been thinking something for a while.
0:21.1	Every big conversation we're having right now in 2020.
0:24.2	The pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement,
0:26.6	election 2020, what is shaping all those conversations?
0:31.4	Facebook and Twitter.
0:33.0	For better and for worse, those are the spaces
0:35.3	that we're going to to talk all this stuff out.
0:37.9	Even as we are still being manipulated on these platforms
0:41.3	in 2020, as much as we were in 2016.
0:45.4	I've been obsessed with what these companies have been doing
0:47.2	recently to take a stand or not on any number of issues.
0:51.1	Twitter is now labeling President Trump's tweets
0:53.5	for threatening harm or for spreading misinformation.
0:56.4	It's led to several prominent conservatives leaving Twitter
0:59.6	over the last few weeks.
1:01.2	Facebook is kind of doing the opposite.
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