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Dex Hunter-Torricke

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
695 total appearances

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What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

And of course, the company absolutely would point to all the things that

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

it thought might be positive stories for the company and how it did those things.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

You know, you'd look at his, all the money that's raised on charity on Facebook.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

True thing.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

Very, very powerful for lots of organizations to raise money on Facebook.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

But at the same time, there'd be other things where, you know, the company would have a sort of, eh, we've got enough on our plate.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

You know, that's not really a thing for us right now.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

And so actually, I'm not saying that

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

suddenly Zuckerberg had to make the refugee crisis his number one thing.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

I absolutely think if you have a thesis about you're connecting the world and you're building this motor of society and you happen to be one of the world's richest people, you probably should make it a part of your responsibility.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

But there's any number of other issues which absolutely are things where the company dropped the ball on.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

Why is it our societies are so deeply divided and angry now in a world awash with disinformation and hate?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

That is something which absolutely wasn't the company's power, and it touched the lives of refugees and non-refugees alike.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

It shapes all of our lives.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

It shapes the entire digital ecosystem, and the company did not meet its obligations there.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

Yeah, that's absurd.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

Look at how much the algorithm on X shifted once Twitter became X under Elon, right?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

You'd spend five seconds in there, it's just a complete cesspool of the absolute worst people who've been algorithmically boosted now to dominate your feeds.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

Absolutely.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

There are choices made every day in the architecture of these platforms and the content they're surfacing.