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Twitter Blues, Israel Protests, and TikTok espionage with Emily Baker-White

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The Threat of Propaganda Versus Espionage

There's kind of what I'll call the espionage threat. It sounds like when they spy on journalists as they were with you, that's the espionage threat and most social media companies in one way or another have been accused of engaging in this. The other threat, and I would argue it's the bigger one, is the propaganda threat. And that's not access to user data as much as it's access to the algorithm such that you could just elegantly put your thumb on the scale of anti-American content.

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