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I'm Jonathan Kay hosting from Toronto.

These days, it seems we're all frustrated with social media.

Some believe that social media

juggernots are too permissive about hate speech and misinformation.

Others claim the opposite. And many conservatives in particular were

outraged when Twitter recently banned Donald Trump

and internet service companies effectively shut down parlor, a right-wing Twitter competitor.

But how do we fix this?

Last week I discussed the issue with Bill A

A small but growing social media network. And in this week's follow-up

episode I speak with Brian Amridge, a former team leader at Facebook who's in the midst of creating a social media network from scratch, named Thoughtful.

All those thought experiments we engage in about what we do if we could create a social media network,

he's going through all that right now, and he's doing it in real life, not just as a thought experiment.

In the interview that follows, you'll hear that the path to enlightened content

...