Lawfare Archive: Casey Newton on Four Years of Platform Chaos

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🗓️ 4 June 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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From October 29, 2020: On this episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Casey Newton, veteran Silicon Valley editor for The Verge who recently went independent to start a newsletter on Substack called Platformer. Few people have followed the stories of platforms and content moderation in recent years as closely and carefully as Casey, so Evelyn and Quinta asked him about what’s changed in the last four years—especially in the lead-up to the election. They also spoke about the challenges of reporting on the tech industry and whether the increased willingness of platforms to moderate content means that the name of this podcast series will have to change.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair
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0:18.2	Also, check out LawFair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, LawFair
0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:40.6	I'm Katherine Pumplio with an episode from the LawFair Archive for June 4, 2022.
0:46.6	This week the Supreme Court blocked a Texas Law that would prohibit social media sites
0:50.7	from restricting certain posts on their platforms based on users' political views.
0:55.0	The Texas Law grants the state of Texas and individual Texans the authority to sue
0:59.5	social media platforms if they center the posts of their users based on political viewpoints
1:04.2	or geographic location by banning their account or removing their posts.
1:08.7	Tech companies such as Metta, Twitter and Google argue that the law violates their first
1:12.9	amendment right to moderate what content is shared on their websites and platforms.
1:18.3	For today's Archive episode, I've picked an episode from October 2020.
1:22.9	In the episode, Evelyn Dwak and Quinted Jurassic spoke with Casey Newton about platforms and
1:28.4	content moderation.
1:35.4	I'm Quinted Jurassic and this is the LawFair podcast, October 29, 2020.
1:47.2	It's another episode of our Herborders of Truth series on disinformation.
1:51.4	This week Evelyn Dwak and I spoke to Casey Newton, the veteran Silicon Valley editor
1:56.4	for the Verge, who recently went independent to start a newsletter on sub-stack called
2:01.4	platformer.
2:02.4	Few people have followed the stories of platforms and content moderation of recent years as
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