The Impacts of the Pandemic on Content Moderation

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i feel like one thing that we saw in the kind of maybe the earlier 2010s is that you know i guess the right hadn't been radicalized to such a degree but also content moderation wasn't necessarily always as strong. Especially when we move into like the mid 2010s you have more of a radicalization happening on the right and platforms feeling like they need to up their moderation game. I remember early in the pandemic i had like a tweet blocked or my account was like suspended or something on twitter for a short period of time because i tweeted about bill gates and vaccines. That was just automatically flagged and i was suspended for it right so you can see how these things were kind of affecting

Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss how the right-wing of the tech industry are funding media platforms like Rumble to reshape the political discourse and why they’re helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. challenge Joe Biden.

Jacob Silverman is a journalist and the co-author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud. He’s also the host of The Naked Emperor on CBC Podcasts. You can check out Jacob’s Substack.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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