Apple will source chips from a plant in Arizona, in a move to lower its dependence on Taiwan. Also, Chief Twit is still at it; this time with a hustle culture ultimatum for Twitter 2.0. Also, Facebook still won’t fact check politicians, including Donald Trump, and Yale and Harvard are done participating in the U.S. News and World Report. Kara and Scott speak with Friend of Pivot and Associate Professor at St. John’s University Law School, Kate Klonick about social media moderation.You can find Kate at @Klonick on Twitter.Send us your questions! Call 855-51-PIVOT or go to nymag.com/pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s Election Day in the United States—so while you wait for the results to come in, why not listen to a podcast about the other biggest story obsessing the political commentariat right now? We’re talking, of course, about Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter and the billionaire’s dramatic and erratic changes to the platform. In response to Musk’s takeover, a great number of Twitter users have made the leap to Mastodon, a decentralized platform that offers a very different vision of what social media could look like. What exactly is decentralized social media, and how does it work? Lawfare senior editor Alan Rozenshtein has a paper on just that, and he sat down with Lawfare senior editor Quinta Jurecic on the podcast to discuss for an episode of our Arbiters of Truth series on the online information ecosystem. They were also joined by Kate Klonick, associate professor of law at St. John’s University, to hash out the many, many questions about content moderation and the future of the internet sparked by Musk’s reign and the new popularity of Mastodon.Among the works mentioned in this episode:“Welcome to hell, Elon. You break it, you buy it,” by Nilay Patel on The Verge“Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve,” by Mike Masnick on TechdirtSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Quinta Jurecic, Eugenia Lostri, Alan Rozenshtein, Kevin Frazier, and Kate Klonick delve into pressing tech policy matters as they relate to the 2024 election. They unpack former President Trump's and Vice President Harris's tech positions, tackling issues like content moderation, cybersecurity, and TikTok regulations. The conversation explores the transformative shifts in AI policy between administrations and the bipartisan approaches to antitrust laws in big tech. The potential impacts of these policies on national security and individual data privacy also take center stage.

Lawfare Daily discusses the Supreme Court's decision in Murthy v. Missouri with Kate Klonick and Matt Perault. They explore government influence on tech companies' speech decisions, threats from public officials, challenges of COVID disinformation, and the role of executive orders in regulating online speech.

Law professor Kate Klonick and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya debate government involvement in social media censorship post a federal court ruling. Topics include national internet policy, First Amendment, citizenship reflections, evolution of censorship, government coercion, and platform struggles.