She's not a backseat taker as to she's worked at a modern regular old media company for years moving into the chaos of Twitter. It reminds me a little bit when Marissa Mayer went from Google to Yahoo Yahoo was a mess and I was like, this is not a first world country. The water doesn't work,. The, you know, kind of thing. And so she's she wasn't used to it because Google had been such a country club for most people who worked there at an NBC run very well by the Comcast people. No one wanted her to leave. She's great. But the transition from running at sales to running a company is rather significant. So that
Twitter rose to prominence as a global public square that helped enable the Arab Spring, but Elon Musk has changed all that. The platform is complying with governments more, and a murky algorithm and blue check jungle makes it feel less relevant and less reliable than ever before.
Nayeema and Kara break down how the fruit has fallen and where it may eventually land (Yahoo Mail, anyone?) with Zoë Schiffer, managing editor of Platformer, and Ryan Mac, The New York Times’s tech and accountability reporter, who was among those banned by Musk back in December.
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