4.4 • 221 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, tells us Elon Musk’s Twitter is making it harder for the internet to be open and free. Plus Shiona McCallum profiles Linda Yaccarino, the platform’s new CEO, with insight from Claire Atkinson, of Insider, whose known her for 20 years. Also: Sam Murunga, from BBC Monitoring, in Nairobi, on why TikTok is in trouble in Senegal. And Ben Derico reports on why voice actors are worried about the threat to their profession from AI.
(Photo: Supporters of Turkish President check their phone to look at early presidential election results in front of the Justice and development Party (AKP's) headquarters, 14 May, 2023. Credit: Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images)
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1:05.2 | On the eve of a knife-edge election in Turkey, Twitter complied with the demand from the authorities to geoblock politically sensitive material from the platform. |
1:16.8 | The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, tells us Elon Musk has made a mistake. |
1:21.7 | Elon Musk has made a lot of noise about being in favour of freedom of expression. |
1:26.5 | It seemed particularly poignant that they chose to simply cave into government demands. |
1:32.8 | People in the industry should really stand up and vigorously say, no, |
1:36.1 | an open internet, a free internet, the free sharing of ideas, free sharing of knowledge, |
1:41.1 | is really crucially important. |
1:42.6 | Has Elon Musk's Twitter made it easier for governments everywhere to censor their opponents? |
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