Why Kanye’s posts could be the future of social media
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Over the weekend, the rapper Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) had antisemitic posts quickly taken down by Twitter and Instagram. Today on “Post Reports,” we talk about how content moderation could change if Elon Musk and GOP leaders have their way.
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Over the weekend, the rapper Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) posted antisemitic messages on Twitter and Instagram. They were quickly taken down, and his accounts were restricted. But as Will Oremus reports, there’s a conservative-led movement that could change how companies approach such decisions. Between a growing field of state laws that seek to restrict content moderation and Elon Musk’s determination to loosen Twitter’s policies, posts such as Ye’s could soon become more prevalent online.
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| 0:00.0 | So the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has been celebrated and elevated by many |
| 0:06.8 | on the right for his outspoken criticism of liberals. |
| 0:11.6 | On Friday, he went a little too far for some people. |
| 0:18.3 | Will Eremis writes tech analysis for the post, and he's been following this controversy |
| 0:23.1 | over anti-Semitic post from the rapper Ye. |
| 0:26.4 | He posted anti-Semitic comments on Instagram. |
| 0:31.4 | Kanye showed up on Twitter for the first time in two years, posted possibly even more |
| 0:35.8 | anti-Semitic comments there, Twitter deleted them, and locked his Twitter account. |
| 0:40.7 | What interested will about this wasn't the content of the post or the fact that these |
| 0:44.7 | platforms took them down, which is pretty unsurprising. |
| 0:48.4 | What interested me as a tech reporter is that this comes at a time when we're in the |
| 0:52.7 | midst of a conservative led movement to rein in what some see as censorship by the Silicon |
| 0:58.6 | Valley giants. |
| 1:01.3 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm Arjun Singh. |
| 1:06.7 | It's Tuesday, October 11th. |
| 1:09.3 | Today, our content moderation became a front line in the culture war, and, why Kanye's |
| 1:15.5 | tweet could be a preview of what Twitter could look like in the future. |
| 1:36.1 | So one of the things I noticed watching this controversy play out over the weekend was |
| 1:40.4 | that Elon Musk welcomed Ye back to Twitter. |
| 1:44.2 | Can you just remind us what's going on with Elon Musk? |
| 1:47.3 | He was buying Twitter, then he wasn't, and now he's buying it again. |
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