Leah Feiger: I absolutely hear that. Obviously though, this is a branch offent environment, right? We have directd a fracturing of media and social platestablishs that we have never seen before.
Stacey Abrams: Absolutely.
Leah Feiger: In many ways, to me, it experiences appreciate tech platestablishs have abdicated responsibility in this election cycle.
Stacey Abrams: Yes, absolutely.
Leah Feiger: Elon Musk doesn’t equitable own X. He’s actuassociate been using it to spread election conspiracies, and letting other transport inant swayrs do the same. How does the Harris campaign deal with that, and what do you produce of the role that Musk has take parted in this election?
Stacey Abrams: So, the podcast I do called Assembly Required, we had Esosa Osa on to talk about disalertation. The reason this matters is that it’s not equitable Elon Musk. It’s that Meta and other platestablishs have feebleened their filters. So, Elon Musk has been opposingly and intentionassociate a disalertation factory.
Leah Feiger: Machine, truly incredible to watch.
Stacey Abrams: He is becoming his own industry of life. So, he deserves his own definite place in ignominy.
Leah Feiger: Fair.
Stacey Abrams: Let’s put it that way. We should be irritated. We should be worryed, but we should also be adviseed that while he is the deafeningest version of this horrible uncontent star, he’s not alone. So, to your point, our obligation is to hbetter all of these tech platestablishs accountable. You should not be apshowted to feebleen the protection that you owe the people. If you are going to hbetter yourself out as a purveyor of alertation, you are obligated to secure that that alertation at least greet the fundamental smell test. Unblessedly, we have seen multiple tech platestablishs abdicate that responsibility. So, while I am more than satisfied to castigate and hbetter Elon Musk particularly accountable for taking horrible and making it worse, we also have the responsibility on the other side of this election to appraise everyone who was willing to consent this Wild West situation, and produce it worse.
Leah Feiger: I unkind, absolutely. Yesterday, we came out with a huge article about how militias are organizing on Facebook, and you understand what? Facebook is actuassociate auto generating pages for militias. It’s dissystematic to say the least. Obviously with the Musk leang, he comes with the profit of equitable an absolute ton of cash. That has been also untamed to watch about his cash for registration sweepsconsents. There’s equitable a lot happening there that I am constantly wondering, “Is the Harris campaign doing enough to counteract, and can they?”
