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WSJ Tech News Briefing

Preserving Black Twitter’s Legacy and Future

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

An effort to archive Black Twitter is underway but recent changes at Twitter, now X, have led to some challenges. This special episode looks at the impact of Black Twitter, the effort to create a record of it, and where some users are moving to continue the community. Zoe Thomas hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Get a better grip on the markets.

0:02.7

WSJ's Take on the Week is here to give you a look ahead to the most important events

0:07.8

on the economic and business calendar and what they mean for your money and investments.

0:13.1

Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:30.0

One year since Elon Musk bought Twitter, he's made a lot of changes in that time.

0:36.1

He renamed the platform X, did away with the old system for receiving blue check mark

0:41.2

verifications and changed rules around content moderation and the way outside researchers

0:47.5

can access the platform's data.

0:50.5

Today, we're going to focus on one of the platform's most influential communities,

0:55.9

Black Twitter.

0:57.2

The group sparked cultural movements.

0:59.7

Its conversations led to people being canceled and fired.

1:03.4

It gave us Black girl magic and Black boy joy, an amplified injustices that many Black

1:09.6

people face on a daily basis.

1:12.5

An effort is underway to archive Black Twitter, but some say that's being made harder

1:18.1

by Musk's changes and an exodus by some users.

1:22.6

We'll take a look at those challenges and what they mean for preserving that community's

1:27.4

history.

1:30.6

Remember the 2015 Oscars?

1:33.2

Welcome to the 87th Oscars.

1:36.6

Tonight we honor Hollywood's best and widest, sorry brightest.

1:42.0

Host Neal Patrick Harris kicked off the show by making a joke about the lack of diversity

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