Twitter's Decision to Add Labels to Misleading Information

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Joellen Coleman: I was on a video call with some of the other leaders at the company who were making this decision. She says she excused herself from wrangling the dog and the movers to sit in front of her cell phone while Twitter made its decision. Coleman: "Most content moderators try really hard not to bring their own political beliefs into the job" Shortly after that first label showed up on Trump's tweet, his name was everywhere.

In a congressional hearing this week, OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, appeared to be on the same page as lawmakers: It’s time to regulate A.I. But like so many other proposals to regulate tech, will it actually happen? The Times’s technology reporter Cecilia Kang helps us understand whether Congress will actually act, and what that could look like.

Then, Casey talks with Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, before and after Elon Musk took over the company.

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Cecilia Kang is a reporter at The New York Times covering technology and regulation.
Yoel Roth is the former head of trust and safety at Twitter.

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Sam Altman urged Congress to pass legislation to regulate A.I., including the proposal that A.I. developers should be required to get licenses from the U.S. government to release their models.
Casey Newton reported for This American Life on Roth’s time at Twitter, before and after Musk took over.