Should Facebook and Twitter Have Banned Donald Trump? A Conversation With Ryan Mac of BuzzFeed News

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Over the past week, both Facebook and Twitter suspended President Donald Trump’s account. These companies don’t take such aggressive action lightly, and it took Trump sending a mob toward the U.S. Capitol, which they eventually breached, to force the issue. For years, BuzzFeed News senior reporter Ryan Mac and I have been watching these companies’ every move. Previously as colleagues at BuzzFeed. Ryan joined me this week on the Big Technology Podcast for a discussion on whether the social platforms’ moves were merited, where they go from here, and how he thinks about all the internal Facebook communication he’s obtained in his reporting.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Michael Kovnet, host of The Next Big Idea Daily.
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0:23.9	Hey, Ryan.
0:24.6	How's it going?
0:25.5	Hey, man.
0:26.1	Been quite a week, hasn't it?
0:27.6	It's been a century, I feel like.
0:30.0	Yeah.
0:30.6	All right.
0:31.2	Well, we will get into it.
0:33.0	I will just start the music and we'll get rolling.
0:47.2	Music just start the music and we'll get rolling. Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool, had a nuanced
0:51.0	conversation of the tech world and beyond. And ladies and gentlemen, we have a great show on the way for you.
0:57.1	Joining us today is Ryan Mack.
0:59.2	He is a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News, a former colleague of mine.
1:03.7	And I would say the man who has the best access into Facebook's internal communications.
1:10.8	It seems like he knows things that are going on inside Facebook before the Facebook employees know them.
1:17.1	So welcome to the show, Ryan.
1:18.6	Thanks for having me.
1:19.9	Nice to be back in touch.
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