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71 Do We Trust the Internet? with evelyn douek and Primavera de Filippi (Trust episode 1)

Reimagining the Internet

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How Did the Deplatforming of President Trump Change the Trust Relationship?

People on the political right seem to mistrust these platforms even more thoroughly than people on the political left. And perhaps there's no better example of that than the deplatforming of President Trump. I think you are right to say that almost no one trusts Facebook, Twitter, trusts these major platforms to have the consumer interest at heart. The storm was brewing well before they deplatformed Trump. We had seen this starting with the way that they released disinformation in the pandemic.

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