Social Media Politics with Walter Isaacson 7/05/23

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🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A U.S. federal judge has restricted some government agencies and officials from communicating with social media companies to discuss content. Twitter has implemented usage limits on its platform, and Meta has announced Threads, a Twitter competitor available through Instagram. Writer Walter Isaacson, currently in the middle of biographing Elon Musk, discusses the role of social media in politics, Elon Musk’s role in news and democracy, and Musk’s leadership, both at Twitter and at Tesla. Plus, CEOs at Pinterest, Peloton, and Hertz are raking in over $100 million a year–more than Apple’s CEO Tim Cook. In this episode: Walter Isaacson, @WalterIsaacson Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Courtney Reagan, @CourtReagan Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	Bring in show music please.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer, today on Squawk Pot.
0:09.0	A judge is ruling against government agencies contacting social media companies.
0:14.4	I don't get it though.
0:15.8	Parsing the relationship between politics and what's online.
0:19.3	The idea that you can't actually make a phone call is crazy to me. I don't want to be given news
0:25.2	that's filtered through whoever's in power. And what's Elon Musk's role in all of
0:31.3	this? You knew there had to be one, the power of one man tweeting with
0:35.2	Musk biographer Walter Isaacson.
0:37.2	He puts it so hard on the scale and is so dismissive, like cisgender type tweets, that he may help Balkanize social media which I know he
0:46.8	doesn't want Balkanize it so that the left and the right go to different
0:51.1	social media places.
0:53.0	Plus, CEOs, they make a lot of money.
0:56.0	They feel like what they're doing for companies.
0:59.0	You know, God's work, I know.
1:01.0	It's Wednesday, July 5th, 2023, we've still got fireworks here.
1:06.4	Geez, some of the stuff I see this, Joe Kernan say. I hope that's not.
1:10.4	Squack Pod begins right now.
1:14.0	Stand and under by in three, two, one,
1:17.0	Q Andrew.
1:18.0	Good morning and welcome to Squawk Box
1:21.0	right here on C.
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