pivot podcast and host of the sway podcast, kara swisher. great to see you. good to see you. what are they going to ask him in ask me anything ? what would you ask? yeah. what would you ask? what would your question be? i interview elon a lot so i ve asked him lots of things over the years. i think i d want to understand his motivation of why he s doing this. i have a sense of why. he loves twitter. he s one of its biggest fans. he likes to be at the center of attention. i think he s buying it because he likes it. it s like you re a rich person with a coffee shop, you like the coffee, you want to buy the company. it s not as complicated as people think. i m not sure he s going to do the things either side of debates about him think he s going to do. it will be interesting to see. i think the employees are nervous around the free speech stuff. they ve done a lot of content moderation. they re worried he suddenly is going to be like a king and make
taylor greene both suspended from social media for covid misinformation. that s as a battle between the white house and facebook is heath up. joining me, kara swisher, host of the sway podcast and new york times columnist. i had the recent pleasure of being on her podcast and i enjoyed it. thank you, good to see you. good to see you, don. covid is raging again and social media remains awash with disinformation. yes. have facebook or the other tech giants stepped up their game in any meaningful way to shut down that misinformation? they ve been trying, obviously. it s a flood that you can t even believe what happens in terms of how much is uploaded every day to each of these systems, billions and billions of pieces of information. and so i think the issue is that it s just too much and they have a hard time keeping track of it and people change, do all kinds of tricks, there s bots and malevolent players. the problem is the system really
a plain speaking politician essentially that can get certain messages across to the american people. here is how ron klain talked about you on the sway podcast. i think the coalition that mr. adams put together in new york is not dissimilar to the coalition that president biden put together. a coalition of working-class voters, african-american voters over whelmingly, and voters that want to see progress on core issues. number one is that a fair assessment, and if it is, a blueprint to success in your view, are you concerned there are other democrats not following that? well, yes, i do believe ron is accurate. and not only must we have the right message, but we have to get things done. you can t have a city with 65% of black and brown children not needing proficiency. and i believe there is an arm of the democratic party that feels as though we should disban