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UC Berkeleys Hany Farid and James Currier of NFX on Musks Twitter takeover and the state of social media

Published: May 6, 2022, 2 a.m.

The Sunday Times\u2019 tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on two guests, Hany Farid of UC Berkeley\u2019s School of Information, and James Currier, general partner at NFX, to talk about Twitter and social media. Farid is up first to talk about free speech (4:50), the ideal of the Internet (10:00), the content moderation challenge (14:45), Musk\u2019s plan for Twitter (18:50), why Farid\u2019s optimistic (23:00), the cost of misinformation (27:00), and his prediction for Twitter (30:30). NFX\u2019s James Currier then comes on to talk about the state of social media (33:35), taming the savageness of man (40:40), the bot problem (42:35), the uniqueness of Twitter (44:35), the Tiktok effect (46:50), the rise and fall of consumer products (51:55), the return to social media normalcy (54:25), the value of a social graph and Twitter\u2019s future (57:45), and the crash in tech markets (1:02:10).

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