Is Social Media to Blame For It All?

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.7 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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We often hear the phrase “Twitter isn’t real life” as a reminder to take online spats with a pinch of salt. But with the U.S. Capitol riot, we’ve been painfully reminded of social media's power. There’s few better people to understand how we got here than tech journalist Kara Swisher. A New York Times columnist and podcaster, Swisher has charted the rise of the internet since 1994, challenging the claims of Silicon Valley's biggest names while warning the public of big tech's ever-growing power. As both the ultimate insider and one of big tech's most perceptive critics, she's been named among the "most feared and well-liked journalists" in Silicon Valley. In this week’s episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk and Kara Swisher discuss what regulations for big tech look like in practice, the role of social media in populist politics, and whether online vitriol is an accurate reflection of public opinion. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: goodfightpod@gmail.com Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John T. Williams and Rebecca Rashid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.5	So for fact sake, search the economist. And the And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
0:55.0	Hi, I'm Nico Perino and I recently co-authored a piece for Persuasion with Greg
1:00.4	Luciano called Fight Council Culture on campus.
1:04.0	When we talk about cancel culture and cancel campaigns,
1:07.5	we're often talking about a vindictive public and morally cowardice institutions.
1:12.0	That's why when the persuasion editors approached me and my
1:14.7	Foundation for Individual Rights and Education colleague Greg Lucianov
1:18.5	about writing an article exploring the bad and the good responses to
1:21.9	cancel campaigns on college campuses, we jumped at the opportunity.
1:26.4	Greg and I had actually teamed up before to address cancel culture, albeit in a different context,
1:31.9	stand-up comedy.
1:33.0	We worked on the 2015 documentary Can We Take a Joke Together
1:36.5	that in retrospect was probably ahead of its time.
1:39.5	But our day job is focused on college campuses.
1:42.8	And believe it or not, during our roughly 30 combined years doing this work,
1:46.4	there have been college presidents who, when faced for calls for cancelling,
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