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Channels with Peter Kafka

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this special bonus episode of Recode Media, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey talks with NYU professor Jay Rosen about how Twitter is thinking about its responsibilities to society at large. In this episode:01:08 - Technological change02:42 - Dorsey’s outreach to conservatives09:43 - How Twitter employees think about news14:33 - Fluid conversations, threads and "edit” buttons18:56 - Why Twitter isn’t “neutral” and making conversations healthy28:03 - The world is round, but “there are other people who share different facts”32:28 - Would Twitter hire an ombudsman? 36:52 - Experimenting with “presence” on Twitter40:58 - "We’re never going to build a perfect antidote” to bad faith actors46:16 - Can global problems be fixed by private companies?49:27 - The top positive and negative impacts of Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me, but I am not going to be spending much time talking to you on this episode. Instead, you're going to hear from Jay Rosen, the NYU professor who's been on this show a couple different times. He's great. He sat down with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey this week. They talked for an hour, and you're going to hear that interview in a couple seconds. A couple quick notes about this. Jay recorded

0:22.3

this on his iPhone 5, so it's going to sound a little bit different than the standard podcast audio

0:27.3

quality you might be used to. It is still listenable, though. You will enjoy it. You should also

0:32.6

go read what Jay had to say about this interview himself. I assume it's over on his press think

0:37.3

blog, but I'm sure

0:37.9

if you Google Jay Rosen and Jack Dorsey, you will find Jay's blog entry about this. We're also

0:44.1

putting up a full transcript of this interview over on reco.net. All right, so you've got a

0:49.3

transcript. You've got Jay's commentary about this, and you've got the audio itself, which you can

0:54.0

hear now.

0:55.2

Oh, one quick thing.

0:56.3

Thanks to Joel Robbie, our engineer, who did a lot of work so you could hear this today.

1:01.2

Okay, here we go.

1:01.9

This is NYU's Jay Rosen interviewing Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter.

1:08.4

You're sticking with the five?

1:13.6

Yeah, I don't like to change much. And that's not so great for technology.

1:16.6

Yeah.

1:17.6

I'm like one of those users who always like screams when you change something and then half

1:20.6

the time I hate it and half the time I get to like it.

1:23.6

What do you think of 280?

1:24.6

Exactly that.

1:25.6

At first I said, I'm not going to do this.

1:28.3

I'm going to voluntarily stick to 140 because I thought that was a great constraint

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