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Channels with Peter Kafka

Twitter, Trump, Facebook and George Floyd with NYT’s Charlie Warzel

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Writer at large for New York Times Opinion, Charlie Warzel, sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to discuss his thoughts on how social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, are handling how their users are utilizing their platforms in response to the most recent protests following the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor. Featuring: Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel), writer at large for New York Times Opinion Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me. We have another special episode. We're planning this one, but it's been a week, so I thought I'd have Charlie Worsell from the New York Times come on to talk about it. Welcome, Charlie. Thanks for having me. Thanks for jumping on, whatever time it is, Montana time for you in your bunker, your wooden paneled bunker. We don't have time here anymore. It's just not a thing. So this will hopefully go up Monday, so it'll be timely because things are changing

2:01.9

quickly. Late last week, I thought it might be good to have Charlie on to talk about the president

2:07.6

in Section 230 and his fight with Twitter and Facebook. And I still want to talk about that,

2:12.7

but obviously we're seeing giant unrest across the country. And I want to talk to Charlie about that and the way media and social media are playing into all of this, affecting all of this, being affected by it.

2:26.2

And a lot of these discussions I have with people like Charlie or people on this show, we end up spending a lot of time talking about how bad social media is.

2:32.6

And I'm sure we will talk about that.

2:34.1

But maybe we can start off with this proposition. about how bad social media is and I'm sure we will talk about that but

2:34.2

maybe we can start off with with this proposition I think that social media has been tremendously

2:39.3

helpful in the last week in a number of ways there's a number of ways that's fallen down we can

2:44.1

talk about those but um I think from circulating the horrifying footage of George Floyd being killed

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