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Welcome to the Quilett Podcast.

I'm Jonathan Kay.

It's been almost a month since Twitter banned Donald Trump,

and somehow we've survived. After all, there are plenty of things

on social media to amuse and outrage us from the hilarious comedy stylings of

Seth Rogin to the bumbling antics of that clueless 15 minute sensation who used his dog's

shampoo and then fetched about it.

But while Trump's account and his presidency are history, he's left behind serious questions about social media governance

and oligopolistic control of the digital commons. In another age you could get your word out

by going to the park and mounting a soapbox, but no one goes to parks to hear people make speeches anymore.

And so what happens when a small group of Silicon Valley billionaires control all the virtual soapboxes. This month we're devoting two

podcast episodes to this question with a focus in each on getting inside the head of

the people who actually run social media companies.

We love to complain about these people, especially Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg and

Twitter's Jack Dorsey, but the questions they're facing aren't easy, and they have big problems of their own from woke

...