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MC 3/29: It's the Best of Times, It's the Worst of Times, in Platform Transparency
MC 3/29: It's the Best of Times, It's the Worst of Times, in Platform Transparency
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Length:
70 minutes
Released:
Mar 29, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
Alex and Evelyn talk about X's lawsuit against CCDH for writing about hate speech on X being thrown out this week, and online rumors about Kate Middelton and the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse, and what they say about the health of our online information ecosystem. Then Brandon Silverman, cofounder and former CEO of CrowdTangle, joins to talk about the state of platform transparency tools in the wake of Meta's announcement that it is going to be shutting the tool down.
Released:
Mar 29, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (75)
Content Moderation in the Stack: When we talk about content moderation, we often focus on companies at the application layer of the internet, like the Facebooks and Twitters of the world. But there are a whole bunch of other companies in the internet stack that have the power to knock things offline. So what is similar or different about content moderation when it moves into the infrastructure layers of the internet? Evelyn spoke with Alissa Starzak, the Vice President and Global Head of Public Policy at Cloudflare and Emma Llanso, the Director of CDT’s Free Expression Project to explore this increasingly pressing question. by Moderated Content