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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Kate Klonick: Can Social Media Not Be So Anti-Social?

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Bobi NYC

Science, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.83.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Kate watched up close as Facebook struggled to moderate its content. And that makes her the perfect guest to unravel the chaos surrounding Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This program is sponsored by the Covley Foundation based in Los Angeles, California.

0:06.8

The Covley Foundation is dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of humanity.

0:12.0

I'm Alan Olga and this is Clear and Vivid, Conversations about Connecting and Communicating.

0:27.6

There is a way in which Mark Zuckerberg is definitely a dictator in the same way that,

0:32.6

but a different type of dictator than Elon Musk is.

0:35.4

And he certainly looks like a bit neville dictator next to kind of Elon Musk and like how

0:40.9

he's been ruling Twitter.

0:42.6

He doesn't seem to really care about this as much as he seems to care about going to

0:46.2

Mars or building spaceships.

0:48.0

So I think this is just some distraction for him for the time being and then I think

0:52.5

he will hopefully move on and hires a real CEO to run things.

0:57.2

That's Kate Kleinick.

0:59.8

She had a ringside seat as Facebook struggled with finding a way to police itself.

1:05.6

She's now bringing that insider's view to the whole social media world and it's being

1:10.5

shaken up now by Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.

1:16.0

This is so great to be talking with you because interestingly you're dealing with one

1:20.1

of the biggest problems in communication in the world today because the way the world

1:26.0

communicates with itself is unregulated.

1:30.3

How is speech monitored now, if at all?

1:34.1

Yeah, that's a great question.

1:36.9

So of course speech is monitored and I actually think that's a wonderful place to start

1:41.1

because I think one of the myths of kind of the free speech ideal, the marketplace of

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