Leah Feiger: I completely really feel it. But clearly it is a totally different atmosphere, proper? We have skilled a fracturing of media and social platforms that we’ve by no means seen earlier than.
Stacey Abrams: Absolutely.
Leah Feiger: In some ways, it appears to me that tech platforms have abdicated accountability on this election cycle.
Stacey Abrams: Yes, completely.
Leah Feiger: Elon Musk does not simply personal X. He’s truly utilizing it to unfold election conspiracies and let different main influencers do the identical. How is Harris’ marketing campaign addressing this situation and what do you consider the position Musk has performed on this election?
Stacey Abrams: So on the podcast I referred to as Assembly Required, we had Esosa Osa to speak about misinformation. The motive this issues is that it isn’t nearly Elon Musk. It’s that Meta and different platforms have weakened their filters. So, Elon Musk has aggressively and deliberately been a misinformation manufacturing facility.
Leah Feiger: Truly superb automotive to take a look at.
Stacey Abrams: It is changing into his life’s trade. Thus, it deserves its particular place in ignominy.
Leah Feiger: Right.
Stacey Abrams: Let’s put it this manner. We must be offended. We must be involved, however we also needs to remember that, though it’s the loudest model of this horrible darkish star, it’s not the one one. So, in your opinion, our obligation is to carry all these tech platforms accountable. You shouldn’t be allowed to undermine the safety you owe the individuals. If you’ll market your self as a supplier of knowledge, you might be obligated to make sure that that data at the very least meets the essential odor check. Unfortunately, we have seen extra tech platforms abdicate that accountability. So whereas I’m more than pleased to chastise and maintain Elon Musk particularly accountable for making a horrible choice and making issues worse, we even have a accountability on the opposite aspect of this election to guage everybody who was prepared to just accept this example from Wild West, and make issues worse.
Leah Feiger: I imply, completely. Yesterday we printed an incredible article about how militias are organizing on Facebook, and you realize what? Facebook truly mechanically generates pages for militias. It’s messy to say the least. Obviously with the Musk factor, it comes with the advantage of a ton of cash. It was additionally loopy to control his cash for registration sweepstakes. There’s a lot occurring that I’m always questioning, “Is the Harris marketing campaign doing sufficient to battle again, and might they do it?”
