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Ep. 49: Free Bird

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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Twitter and the Hunter Biden Laptop Story

In 2021 Twitter's former CEO Jack Dorsey said publicly that his company's decision to block distribution of the New York Post story that broke the Hunter Biden laptop was a mistake. Now Dorsey here is saying the decision was because of a Twitter policy at the time on hacked material and there are a couple problems with this, says John Avlon. As social media companies developed more and more rules for what content they would allow and what content they wouldn't allow it became a little bit like a kind of Chinese you know restaurant menu where you could pick from one column or another column to get the kind of outcome that you wanted. The final problem is that social media in the last three years in particular

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