Social media companies have really stepped up their game when it comes to identifying what they call coordinated and authentic behavior. The platforms don't have a good way of taking down content that comes from authentic users, he says. One of the big concerns with the Twitter takeover is that we're losing access to such a great resource for measuring and understanding some of the relationships between social media and democracy more broadly.
It’s sooo 2016, but the word still mattered a lot in 2022. Merriam-Webster explains.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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