#310 — Social Media & Public Trust

Sam Harris speaks with Bari Weiss, Michael Shellenberger, and
Renee DiResta about the release of “the Twitter files” and the
loss of trust in the institutions of media and government. They
discuss Bari and Michael’s experience of participating in the
Twitter files release, the problem of misinformation, the
relationship between Twitter and the federal government, Russian
influence operations, the challenges of content moderation,
Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop, the need for transparency,
platforms vs. publishers, Twitter’s resistance to the FBI,
political bias at Twitter, J.K. Rowling, the inherent
subjectivity of moderation decisions, the rise of competitive
platforms, rumors vs. misinformation, how Twitter attempted to
control the spread of Covid misinformation, the throttling of Dr.
Jay Bhattacharya, the failure of institutions to communicate
Covid information well, the risk of paternalism, abuses of power,
and other topics.


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