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Decoder with Nilay Patel

Recode Decode: Twitter's Vijaya Gadde and Kayvon Beykpour (Live at Code 2019)

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.33.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Vijaya Gadde, who leads the legal and trust and safety teams at Twitter, and Periscope co-founder Kayvon Beykpour, who's now the company's head of product, talk with Recode's Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka at the 2019 Code Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. In this episode: Twitter’s meeting with President Trump; CEO Jack Dorsey's level of contact with the policy team; cleaning the Twitter “cesspool”; could it operate without letting everyone speak?; its new policies around elections and anti-vaxxers; how its responses to abuse compare to Facebook’s and Google’s; does de-platforming people like Alex Jones reduce their influence?; does Twitter radicalize people?; how Twitter is trying to get rid of white supremacists; and false equivalency in content moderation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:17.0

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0:24.0

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0:35.0

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0:47.0

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0:53.0

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1:00.0

So there's always another breakthrough ahead. Unisys, keep breaking through.

1:07.0

Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large of Recode.

1:10.0

You may know me as someone who will only be happy if Twitter cleans up its platform or gives me an edit button, but I need at least one of those things.

1:17.0

But in my spare time, I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.

1:23.0

Today, we're going to play an interview from this year's Code Conference. Peter Kafka and I talk to Vigia Gotti and Kavon Bakebore from Twitter.

1:30.0

Gotti is the company's legal boss and also heads its trust and safety team, while Bakebore is the head of product.

1:37.0

Gotti says solving Twitter's problems isn't as simple as kicking off all the bad actors as some of the platform's critics like to claim.

1:44.0

I don't think anyone can convince me that bad things don't happen on private platforms.

1:48.0

Bad things probably happen more often on private than public platforms.

1:51.0

There is an advantage to being open, which is that everyone can see it and respond to it and understand what's happening.

1:57.0

Now, there's a disadvantage to that as well, obviously, because you get people on platform.

2:01.0

So you have to find the right balance of being able to provide a space for ideas to happen, but counter narratives to flourish.

2:10.0

You can find full coverage of this interview and everything else from the Code Conference at box.com slash Recode.

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