The case for banning Trump on social media
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🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Lindsay People's Editor-in-Chief of the Cut. |
| 0:04.8 | This month on our podcast in her shoes, we talked to designer Mara Hoffman. |
| 0:09.5 | Hoffman was just awarded CFDA's environmental sustainability award and also |
| 0:14.4 | released her first dress made entirely from recycled fabric. We hope you'll |
| 0:18.6 | join us for this month's series sponsored by evening. We've talked a lot about social media and President Donald Trump recently. |
| 0:36.0 | There's a reason for that. |
| 0:38.0 | Big things are happening. There's Twitter. |
| 0:41.0 | Twitter for the very first time is fact-checking the president. |
| 0:44.9 | And now there's Snapchat. |
| 0:46.7 | Now Snap is saying it is not currently promoting the president's content on Snapchat's |
| 0:52.4 | Discover platform. |
| 0:54.0 | Last week, Snapchat essentially ended its promotion of the President's content. |
| 0:59.1 | In a memo to employees, Snap CEO Evan Spiegeleagle wrote, |
| 1:03.0 | We simply cannot promote accounts in America |
| 1:06.0 | that are linked to people who incite racial violence, |
| 1:09.0 | whether they do so on or off the platform. |
| 1:12.0 | T.C. Soddek says that none of these measures go far enough. |
| 1:16.0 | I think the answer is actually pretty simple, which is just to ban him. |
| 1:20.0 | T.C. is an executive editor at The Verge and today on the show, he walks us through a radical idea for difficult times. |
| 1:28.0 | Should social media companies ban the president. |
| 1:32.0 | I'm Ariel Dum Ross. |
| 1:34.0 | This is reset. |
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