Twitter Faltering on Free Speech Promise? New CEO Pushes Strict Content Moderation & "Civic Integrity Teams." Plus: Michael Tracey on Trump Indictment, Ukraine, & More | SYSTEM UPDATE #132
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
Rumble
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. It's Thursday, August 17th. Welcome to a new episode of |
| 0:17.4 | System Update. Our live nightly show that airs every money through Friday at |
| 0:21.2 | 7 PM Eastern exclusively here on |
| 0:23.7 | Rumbull the free speech alternative to YouTube tonight. |
| 0:27.6 | Twitter executives led by its new CEO Linda Yacharino |
| 0:31.9 | have been unveiling what they are describing as their new content moderation |
| 0:35.7 | policies. |
| 0:36.7 | This week, they even announced the hiring of what they are touting as their election |
| 0:40.9 | year, quote, Civic Integrity Team. |
| 0:44.0 | At first glance, that sounds like something |
| 0:46.7 | YOL Roth could return to do. |
| 0:49.3 | Ever since it was announced that Egon Musk |
| 0:50.9 | was purchasing Twitter, |
| 0:52.0 | accompanied by vows to restore free speech to the platform. |
| 0:55.1 | I've been no secret of the fact that I am rooting for that to succeed. |
| 0:59.9 | The primary reason I moved my platform from Substack to Rumble in locals last year, agreeing to produce |
| 1:05.0 | a nightly live show, something I've never done before that is quite labor intensive, is because |
| 1:09.9 | I really |
| 1:13.7 | believe that fortifying as many platforms as possible that are truly devoted to |
| 1:14.4 | resisting censorship demands that come from corporate media and the |
| 1:18.2 | U.S. security state is of the highest priority, the key to preserving the |
| 1:22.2 | possibility of a free internet and more broadly |
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