Preserving Black Twitter’s Legacy and Future
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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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. |
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| 1:42.0 | Host Neal Patrick Harris kicked off the show by making a joke about the lack of diversity |
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