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The Damage Report with John Iadarola

Twitter Get Off The Pot

The Damage Report with John Iadarola

TYT Network

News, Government, Politics

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Twitter algorithm to block white supremacists would inadvertently flag GOP politicians. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stands by not removing Trump tweet that led to death threats. Varshini Prakash joins us LIVE in-studio to talk about the Green New Deal and how it's affecting the 2020 race. Report: Trump Administration considered detaining migrant children at Guantanamo Bay. Tech Attorney Bari Williams breaks down the pitfalls of the First Step Act. Trump takes shots at Biden for being 'too old.' Cohost: Brett Erlich Guests: Varshini Prakash & Bari Williams Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, let's get this week over with. It's Friday. I'm Johnny Rola. Brenner looking

0:09.3

here as well for the Friday edition of The Damage Report. Brett, welcome back.

0:12.5

It is so great to be here with you, John. Oh my God. What a great show this is about

0:17.4

to be. Nice sweater. I'm extremely excited. I'm usually when I say I'm excited for

0:22.5

your in-studio guest, I'm talking about myself. Not today. No. Today I'm very excited

0:28.4

for your in-studio guest. Today you can approximate normal human genuineness.

0:34.2

And that is because we have got co-founder and executive director of The Sunrise Movement

0:37.7

version of Prakash in studio. She has been Skyping Into The Show for like six months now,

0:44.0

actually. First appearance the day after The Sunrise Movement's big protest outside

0:48.1

of Nancy Pelosi's office with AOC. And we have been tracking their progress ever since.

0:53.4

And now we get to track their geographic progress because they are on a cross country

0:56.6

tour of town halls and meetings and getting people fired up to push for a green new deal.

1:02.0

And so she will be here in like 10 minutes so don't go anywhere. We've also got Barry

1:06.6

Williams is going to be joining us to talk about AI, race, politics, the elections, social

1:11.0

media, a ton of issues, some of which we're actually going to be touching on in this block

1:14.1

in just a second. We're going to be talking about Twitter. We're going to get to the Guantanamo

1:17.2

based story that we didn't get to yesterday. It involves kids because of Donald Trump.

1:21.9

And later on assuming we have time at the end of the show, Donald Trump makes the case

1:26.9

for his virility as a young man. And we've got the latest on the push to get prisoners to be

1:33.8

able to vote in states across the country. But first, Twitter. Twitter actually has fairly

1:39.4

sophisticated tools for sort of combing through all of the many tweets that are going out there

1:44.5

and getting rid of certain types of content. They've been able to do that in some areas.

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