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Speaker 1: The intruder was shouting Where's Nancy? Sus that pull the

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Speaker 1: Joe Matthew on Bloomberg Radio, the Speaker of the House

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Speaker 1: as we end the week with new concerns about political violence.

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Speaker 1: nine eleven commissioned. Later, we widen our focus to political

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Speaker 1: speech and the digital town square. Now that Elon Musk

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Speaker 1: for Strategic Dialogue, and our signature panel helps us make

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Speaker 1: Jeannie Chanzano here for the hour. When we start with

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Speaker 1: It's chilling to hear it now. That was from tape

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Speaker 1: Leon Panetta, also former Secretary of Defense, wants a congressman

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Speaker 1: from California to be more specific, Mr Secretary, welcome back

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Speaker 1: you find offensive in one form or another, then you

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Speaker 1: you can have that as a setting and not see

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Speaker 1: It all comes down to the settings. Wasn't that something though?

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Speaker 1: That was back in It was June one talking with

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg News. Now it's a done deal and as he says,

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Speaker 1: no major decisions on content or account reinstatements Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: will be made until the Content Moderation Council is part

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Speaker 1: of the picture. Katherine Kenneley must have this all figured

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Speaker 1: out already, Senior research manager at the Institute for Strategic dialogue. Catherine,

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Speaker 1: I'm really glad you could join us here today. Everyone's speculating.

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Speaker 1: No one really knows the impact that Elon Musk will

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00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 1: have on Twitter. Are you worried about what it means

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00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:42,880
Speaker 1: for political discourse? Sure? And thank you for having me. So,

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00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: we certainly are already seeing an emboldening, emboldening of hate

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Speaker 1: actors that are expecting him to discard these safeguards. But

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Speaker 1: what we really want to see is that if Musk

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Speaker 1: really wants this to be the digital public square that

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00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,679
Speaker 1: he mounts, he should really start by addressing the systemic

446
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,959
Speaker 1: issues that he's already raised over the past a few months.

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Speaker 1: Be it's increasing their algorithmic transparency and addressing an authentic activity. Um.

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00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 1: Doing that, it'll finally give us insight into the platform

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00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: that we we really don't know. But yes, we are

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Speaker 1: certainly aith that, right, yeah, yeah, exactly, show us what

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Speaker 1: about the algorithm, Like the algorithm is compared to the

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00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: you know, the secret recipe for coke? Isn't that? Isn't

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00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:38,959
Speaker 1: that private corporate? Uh information? Why why make that public? Sure? So,

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Speaker 1: we don't actually have a federal self or regulation for

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00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: social media right now? So it is private. The reason

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00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: why it should be made public is without that information,

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00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: we do not know what makes us vulnerable to online manipulation,

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Speaker 1: be it misinformation, disinformation, hate content, And without having that

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Speaker 1: algorithm or algorithmic access um, we really just don't know

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Speaker 1: how it works or and because we don't know how

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00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: it works, we can't protect vulnerable users from abuse on

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Speaker 1: the platform. When you hear a story like today, We've

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Speaker 1: been talking this whole hour, Catherine, about the attack on

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Speaker 1: the Pelosi household, the attack on Paul Pelosi specifically, the

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Speaker 1: number of threats that are coming from social media alone

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Speaker 1: are overwhelming law enforcement when they're trying to investigate these things.

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Speaker 1: How does Elon must control that? I think what's important

468
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Speaker 1: is there's no need, there's no requirement for him to

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Speaker 1: control it. And this is not just a Twitter probra problem.

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Speaker 1: This is a social media problem. What we really need

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Speaker 1: is regulation across social media that comes from government, because

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Speaker 1: what we've seen from the last decade or so is

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Speaker 1: self regulation just simply isn't working. M self regulation, although

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Speaker 1: he seems to think that he's going to be putting

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Speaker 1: some guardrails in place here, What do you make of

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Speaker 1: this idea of of the content Moderation Council. Does that

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Speaker 1: encourage you or scare you? I mean, I'm glad to

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Speaker 1: see that he's thinking about these things, that he's already

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Speaker 1: considering how content is going to be monitored. But we're

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Speaker 1: just going to have to wait to see how how

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Speaker 1: that plays out and how it's forms A certainly skeptical

482
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Speaker 1: good speculation right now? Does he put Donald Trump back

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Speaker 1: on the platform? Should he? I don't. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: um he should. I don't think that's where I should

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Speaker 1: come in. Do you think he will? Though? I mean,

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Speaker 1: that seems to be inevitable right if he's He's now

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Speaker 1: the owner of a profitable business. I understand GM has

488
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Speaker 1: just pulled its ads they compete with Tesla. Does does

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump make this a more buzzworthy property? I don't

490
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Speaker 1: think it makes it a more buzzworthy property, but I

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Speaker 1: certainly would be considering whether advertisers want to remain on

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Speaker 1: that platform. Should Trump be brought back on fascinating. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you We've got a lot to learn about this still,

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Speaker 1: and I want to thank you for being with us. Katherine.

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Speaker 1: She's the senior research manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

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Speaker 1: Katherine Kenneely with us here on Bloomberg Sound On, I'm

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Speaker 1: Joe Matthew and Washington as we wrapped the week with

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Speaker 1: just an incredible set of headlines here as Elon Musk

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Speaker 1: closes the deal to buy Twitter, just hours away from

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Speaker 1: a whole new front in the conversation about political violence

501
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Speaker 1: following the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: both once again as we reassemble the panel with Rick

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Speaker 1: Davis and Jeannie Chanzano coming up here on sound On

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Politics contributors, the best political panel in the business

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Speaker 1: Traffic and Markets, as well, as we get ready to

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Speaker 1: cross the threshold to the weekend together. I'm glad you

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Speaker 1: joined us. I'm Joe Matthew. This is Bloomberg. You're listening

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Speaker 1: to Bloomberg you sound On with Joe Matthew on Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: The big question, of course, about Twitter, remains the same.

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Speaker 1: Are they going to let him back while they reinstate?

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Speaker 1: The former president of the United States, And I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure how that's gonna go. Does he come back if

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Speaker 1: Helon asks him? Do they have to kind of arrange

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00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: that in advance? Would be embarrassing if he didn't because well,

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Speaker 1: he's got his own social media platform and came out

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Speaker 1: with a statement today on the deal closing Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: quote truth social It's become somewhat a phenomenon, he writes.

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Speaker 1: Last week it had bigger numbers than all other platforms,

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Speaker 1: including TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and the rest. If to see

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Speaker 1: those numbers, it also looks and works better to my eye,

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Speaker 1: he writes, I'm very happy Twitter is now insane hands

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Speaker 1: and will no longer be run by radical left lunatics

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Speaker 1: and maniacs. He says, the truly hate our country. This

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Speaker 1: is same day of the Pelosi attack. Twitter must work

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Speaker 1: hard to rid itself of all the bots and fake accounts.

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Speaker 1: He says, this is the one they're looking for. It'll

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Speaker 1: be much smaller, but better, and he ends by saying,

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Speaker 1: I love truth all caps exclamation points. So uh, let's

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Speaker 1: recall how much he did love Twitter, because remember, he

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Speaker 1: had millions of people at his fingertips here. It helped

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Speaker 1: him become the president of the United States. Kick back,

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Speaker 1: what six years now? This is Donald Trump in six

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Speaker 1: talking about this platform He's on. This stuff is great,

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Speaker 1: This Twitter, It's so incredible. I have like between Twitter

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Speaker 1: and Facebook and Instagram, I have like eleven or twelve

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Speaker 1: million followers eleven it that's like it's sort of like

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Speaker 1: owning the New York Times without the losses. Can you

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Speaker 1: believe that? No, it's like incredible, boy, lots happened since then.

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Speaker 1: Even sounds kind of different. Rick Davison, Jeanie Schanzana, we're

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Speaker 1: here Bloomberg Politics contributors are signature panel to embrace the

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Speaker 1: weekend along with us. Right now, Rick, does he make

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Speaker 1: the jump because you've pointed out, you know, he's making

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Speaker 1: money on this thing, truth Social. Yeah, I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: the truth Social thing could be a huge boom for

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00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,479
Speaker 1: him if he's able to, you know, continue to add

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Speaker 1: people to it and get advertisers and then take it public,

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00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: which is all part of the plan. Uh, this was

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00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: a spack deal, right, that never was a spack deal.

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00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: It's run into some trouble, but it doesn't mean it

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00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 1: can't rise up for another day and and and just

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Speaker 1: remind everybody he didn't get paid to be on Twitter, right,

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00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: I mean, and the one thing we knew about Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump before he became present is he didn't get out

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Speaker 1: of bed unless someone was going to pay him. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I I suspect regardless of what he thinks

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Speaker 1: about Twitter, he thinks truth Social as he just text

557
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: is much better and so because it's his and of

558
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 1: course it must be much better. So my guess is

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Speaker 1: he stays right where he is because of the economic

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00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,839
Speaker 1: upside that he's got for potential there. The funny thing

561
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: is we always knew when he was getting out of bed,

562
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: because that would be when he'd start tweeting. It was

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00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: every newsroom he's up, He's up. You know, could be

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Speaker 1: eight in the morning, eleven when the first salvos gone out.

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Speaker 1: And I guess now it's it's just not the same

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Speaker 1: with truth Social Genie. I know that you're you're a user,

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00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: but what what does this say here? This is Elon's

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Speaker 1: tweet today, no major content decisions or account reinstatements before

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Speaker 1: the Content Moderation Council convenes. There's just something authoritarian sounding

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Speaker 1: about the Content Moderation Council. Who's going to be on

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Speaker 1: that thing? I hope? He asks us, Joe, And can

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Speaker 1: you feel the wind? As Musk back pedals very hard

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Speaker 1: from his absolute free speech stands, Yeah, it's very breezy

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Speaker 1: in here. And the question now is which Elon Musk

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Speaker 1: is showing up. Right. You know, we've all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden got an Elon Musk who at you know, one

577
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Speaker 1: time Elon Musk was you know, dissing all the advertisers.

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Speaker 1: He was saying, you know, very critical things. He was

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Speaker 1: critical at the people at Twitter, who were you know,

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Speaker 1: cow towing as he liked to describe it, to the advertisers.

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00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: And yet the businessman in him knows it's their revenue,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, within hours of owning it,

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Speaker 1: he all of a sudden he is feeling very you know,

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Speaker 1: sort of um much more friendly to the idea of

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Speaker 1: content moderation, which, by the way, is a good thing.

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Speaker 1: But it also raises the question as to how he's

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Speaker 1: gonna walk both of these tracks at the same time.

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00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,319
Speaker 1: It's it's gonna be tough to pull off. And of course,

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Speaker 1: all this follows him actually spending some time in the building, right,

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00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: I know, he excused uh some management rick, but actually

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Speaker 1: being in the building, becoming the owner of this platform

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Speaker 1: might actually change the way he feels about some of

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Speaker 1: these things. Yeah. Look, I mean it's kind of hard

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Speaker 1: to tell how all this is going to shake down,

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00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,800
Speaker 1: because by the way. Part of what is also happening,

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Speaker 1: Joe is there's a balkanization amongst all these different ideological

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00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 1: groups into their own space around social media. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's been a proliferation of new organization, not just true

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Speaker 1: social that are you know, either uh, streaming information or

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Speaker 1: doing Twitter like messaging. And so I think we're entering

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00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: in this phase where uh, you know, everybody's sort of

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00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: migrating to their own space. And it'll be interesting to

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00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: see who migrates to Twitter. We've already seen, as you

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Speaker 1: pointed out, you know, some advertisers uh looking to withdraw

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00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: meet some very high profile Hollywood people are like, we're

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00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: out of here, We're not gonna stick around. Um and

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00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: and if he unleashes Twitter and let's the you know,

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Speaker 1: um uh yeah, and other people come back on Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how long I've been dying to do that? How long

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Speaker 1: is it before other people bail out? Right? I mean like, so,

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Speaker 1: uh it's I think we're going to see like the

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Speaker 1: wild West of social media for a while, which is

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Speaker 1: exactly probably what the country doesn't mean. But that's what

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00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: happened to cable news, right. So the balkanization that Rick

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Speaker 1: says Janie moves over to social media. Let's follow that

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Speaker 1: for a second. What does that mean about the public discourse?

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Speaker 1: Because Twitter could be left to be irrelevant at that point,

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Speaker 1: right if the if the left goes it's way, the

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Speaker 1: right goes its way. Everybody gets their Fox News away

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Speaker 1: in an MSNBC. What's the point of this thing? That's right?

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Speaker 1: And by the way, if Rick Davis can just say

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Speaker 1: yea a thousand times over, that made my week, thank you?

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Speaker 1: Reck um? Yeah, I mean that is the reality, right,

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Speaker 1: and that's the that's what Elon Musk is trying to avoid.

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00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 1: He wants to make Twitter the go to place for

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Speaker 1: for speech of all kinds. But the reality is it

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00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: could be a really ill conceived and bad idea to

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Speaker 1: buy the thing. Because forty four billion was overpaying it

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Speaker 1: at the beginning, it's certainly overpaying it now. He's stuck

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Speaker 1: with it now, and he's of two minds on it,

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Speaker 1: you know, free speech versus content moderation. But he needs

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Speaker 1: also to have this thing be at least fairly lucrative

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Speaker 1: or at least hold its own and it can't do

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Speaker 1: that at this point without advertisers. So I think the

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00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: real question here is how are you going to keep

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Speaker 1: this afloat without advertisers? And if you're going to have

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Speaker 1: after advertisers, they are going to walk off the platform

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Speaker 1: if it becomes a home for crazy talk, and does

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Speaker 1: it become just a home for milk coast rick the

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Speaker 1: way you're talking, if left and right both go in

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Speaker 1: their own direction, what's left in the middle? Yeah, well, um,

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Speaker 1: a good question. I mean I think that, uh, I

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Speaker 1: think that that's gonna be one of the things we're

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Speaker 1: gonna find out, because like even Ya has been flirting.

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Speaker 1: Didn't he buy parlor? Isn't that now this is platform?

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Speaker 1: I mean, like is he coming back to Twitter? I

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Speaker 1: mean like maybe he and Donald Trump can do you

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Speaker 1: know a whole merger or something? And you know so

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Speaker 1: so I don't know. I mean like it's uh, it's

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Speaker 1: it's like this organization GAB that's a new right wing

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Speaker 1: alternative to Twitter. You know, are people gonna move off

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Speaker 1: a Twitter and on the gap because we don't like

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Speaker 1: to be with people who aren't like us? And as

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Speaker 1: as as you pointed out, the cable news sorted itself out,

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Speaker 1: but now look what we have. Maybe CNN is saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: maybe we've got to get back to the our roots

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Speaker 1: of being just a news organization. Well, that's the most

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Speaker 1: helpful thing that could possibly happen, I would think, with

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Speaker 1: with the proliferation of MS dis and malinformation. So um,

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Speaker 1: hopefully it's a movement in the right direction. Who knows.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'll be the last one who will have

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Speaker 1: the front row seat on how social media develops. I

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Speaker 1: guess well, you're probably choosing wisely, Genie. All of us

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Speaker 1: wants can just meeting in the boring zone here on

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Speaker 1: your favorite channel, c SPAN. That's the way we do it, right.

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Speaker 1: There is nothing boring about c SPAN. Joe Matthew, take

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Speaker 1: it back right away. Is a compliment for crying out

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Speaker 1: like they're more essential than ever. In my gosh, how

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Speaker 1: c SPAN going to get along when all their money

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Speaker 1: comes from cable TV? If everyone's cutting the cord. That's

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Speaker 1: a show for another day. But as far as this

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Speaker 1: is concerned, Elon Musk could look like a very different

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Speaker 1: person rick to Genie's point with this Content Moderation Council,

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Speaker 1: is he about to let down conservatives who think that

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Speaker 1: this is you know, he's about to unleash whatever fire

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Speaker 1: they've been looking for on Twitter? What idiot would join

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Speaker 1: a membership into the council. I mean, like you gotta

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Speaker 1: be nuts, right, I mean like I'd like to paint

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Speaker 1: a target on you today, Joe. I've never give this

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Speaker 1: free pass into the Content Moderation Council. And so that

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Speaker 1: everybody who's on Twitter can complain to you that that's

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Speaker 1: really true. But I guess to your point, g And

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Speaker 1: he's hearing about this now, right. He's hearing from advertisers,

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Speaker 1: he's hearing from people inside the building. I do find

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Speaker 1: it fascinating that GM has pulled out a lot of

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Speaker 1: folks were wondering if something like that would happen, not

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Speaker 1: because of politics as much as he owns a car company. Uh,

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Speaker 1: do they want to reveal their digital media strategy to

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Speaker 1: the guy who runs Tesla Genie? That's right? I mean,

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Speaker 1: those are the other complications here. And you know, this

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Speaker 1: content oversight board he's planning sounds very much like what

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Speaker 1: Facebook has done, and and that you know, people got

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Speaker 1: a good chuckle out of what Facebook has done there,

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Speaker 1: and today they were tweeting they welcome the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: talk to Twitter about their plans and content moderation and

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Speaker 1: let's not forget Twitter already had a content moderation or

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Speaker 1: a security area, if you will, and he, you know,

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk used to joke about that and laugh about it.

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Speaker 1: Those people are gone now as of yesterday, and he's

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Speaker 1: putting something similar with a much more you know, ominous

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Speaker 1: sounding to your point name in place, and hard to

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Speaker 1: imagine that people who are free speech absolutists are going

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Speaker 1: to feel like this is the place they want to be.

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Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, he also said, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's not going to end the permanent bands quite yet.

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Speaker 1: That's going to come after the board meets, so will

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Speaker 1: start a punk rock band called the Content Moderation Council.

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Speaker 1: Somebody get it done. Let us know. We'll play your music. Genie,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Rick, thank you. What a week? My god?

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Speaker 1: How does all of this stuff happen all in one day?

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Speaker 1: Rick Davis and Jeannie Chanzano our signature panel helping us

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Speaker 1: walk into the weekend. As we leave you with the

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Speaker 1: sounds of the killer, Yeah, there he is, did you hear?

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Speaker 1: Jerry Lee Lewis died today. This time it was real eighties,

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Speaker 1: seven years old, son of a Pentecostal preacher. His cousin

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Speaker 1: was Jimmy Swagger. Did you know that taught himself how

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Speaker 1: to play and he was a walking scandal after marrying

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Speaker 1: his thirteen year old cousin. But much like politics, she

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Speaker 1: left us breathless. I'll see you back here Monday on

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