Jack Dorsey speaks: CNN's full interview with Twitter's CEO
Reliable Sources
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🗓️ 19 August 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to a special edition of the Reliable Sources Podcast, an in-depth interview with |
| 0:06.7 | Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm Brian Stelter and I flew out to Twitter headquarters in San Francisco recently to sit down with Dorsey. |
| 0:16.0 | He's been on a bit of a media tour recently, giving interviews and opening up about Twitter's problems battling abuse and hate speech, |
| 0:26.0 | disinformation and harassment. These problems of course are not unique to |
| 0:31.6 | Twitter, but Dorsey says he is willing to consider These problems, of course, are not unique to Twitter. |
| 0:32.8 | But Dorsey says he is willing to consider anything. |
| 0:35.6 | He's willing to question everything in order to improve the service, |
| 0:39.8 | to improve what he calls the health of the conversations on Twitter. |
| 0:44.9 | We spoke for about 30 minutes on the 10th floor of the Twitter headquarters. |
| 0:50.0 | We aired a portion of this on television, but we wanted to share the entire conversation with you in this podcast format. |
| 0:57.0 | Beginning with a pretty simple question, what's broken? |
| 1:01.6 | Jack, thanks so much for sitting down with me. |
| 1:03.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:04.6 | A big question to start off with. |
| 1:07.3 | And I'm sorry it sounds so negative. |
| 1:09.2 | But what is broken about Twitter today? |
| 1:12.4 | What is broken about Twitter? I mean, I think it really depends on who you follow and your perception of what you see and how you feel about that. |
| 1:24.2 | I mean, there's a lot of emphasis today |
| 1:27.2 | on politics Twitter. |
| 1:29.0 | And politics Twitter tends to be pretty divisive and it tends to be pretty contentious and you see a lot of |
| 1:36.1 | outrage and you see a lot of a lot of unhealthy debate that you probably want to walk away from tangibly. |
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