thing that s have created and sustained that atmosphere? and, you know, it is not it is not just about buffalo but it included buffalo. and it is something that in terms of coverage, policy, overall approach, we need to do much, much, much, much better on. now there s talk about regulation of social media, those are big cans of worms that could go in very bad directions. khaya, we saw senator chuck schumer writering a letter to fox, reporting they halt this racist rhetoric. i worry there s not enough examination of the internet as a role, as margaret mentioned, 4chans of the world, and is disinformation even the proper word for the kind of racist rabbit holes people can fall down? i guess disinformation is part of it. yes, disinformation is such a broad term. it included so much. yeah. it s something that something that i have been thinking a lot about.
speculate what he was attempting to do. but we asked him for comments. he then reached out and said i would like more time. we waited nine, ten hours before asking for more time. we said okay, you can have more time. i reached out to him personally a few times. talk to us. we want to hear from you. as is often the case in these sorts of circumstances, declined to use the more time we granted him. but, yes, all of the requests were in before he was going on the sort of rant about whatever political party he s joining at the moment. a lot of folks he tweeted those comments because of the request for a comment but we don t know for sure. it s been several days now. has musk tweeted any legal action against your website? we have not received legal threats yet. we re prepared to deefd the
with everything they ve done or be or say on platforms and various places, but what i will say they have both done the two most important things, which is to provide financial stability buffett no longer owns the buffalo news but when he did, that was the case. and they kept their hands off the paper s journalism and its editorial policies. so, no, it hasn t made my job more difficult. there are different kinds of billionaire ownership. yes, there are. khaya, another big headline broken by the washington post this week was about the disinformation governance board. this department of homeland security board that was going to try to bring together different parts of the country and stop people from getting tricked by lies on the internet. sounded logical but filled to fail. it became a conservative meme called the ministry of truth, relentlessly mocked it and especially the leader of the board who had a history online of posting a lot of liberal
this week twitter announced a new crisis misinformation policy. an interesting phrase, they re basically trying to take further action, khaya, in breaking news moments, in moments of crisis, to diminish liars on the platform. i have to wonder they re announcing this white musk is trying to buy the platform, or maybe trying to buy the platform, saying he wants to restore freedom of speech. this is like sticking it too musk. what do you make of this policy as well? this policy has been in the works since last year oh, okay. premusk. reportedly. and also we know the consequences of misinformation on the internet since january 6th, since ukraine. it seems like this is bigger than musk. and to say this is despite musk seems like a little shortsighted i would say. but it shows these tech companies are trying, their continuing to try to deal with the nonsense that pollutes the internet. you live in this world on this beat every day, how do you size up the disinformation landscape?
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