A lot of the conversation around CDA 230 right now, it's even that starts become polarizing. It gets broken down to, if you get rid of 230, then you are anti-free speech. I actually don't want Facebook and Google and Twitter to be regulated the same way as the New York Times. The freedom of speech is not the same thing as the freedom of reach. And there's no actual legal responsibility for what is on your platform at the end of the day.
Aza sits down with Yael Eisenstat, a former CIA officer and a former advisor at the White House. When Yael noticed that Americans were having a harder and harder time finding common ground, she shifted her work from counter-extremism abroad to advising technology companies in the U.S. She believed as danger at home increased, her public sector experience could help fill a gap in Silicon Valley’s talent pool and chip away at the ways tech was contributing to polarization and election hacking. But when she joined Facebook in June 2018, things didn’t go as planned. Yael shares the lessons she learned and her perspective on government’s role in regulating tech, and Aza and Tristan raise questions about our relationships with these companies and the balance of power.