MEG OLIVER:
00:02:27
Coney Barrett, yeah. Sorry-- actually said that that case didn't have merit. Now, what's happening right now, though, is different. You have a president who specifically has gone out publicly and accused Mark Zuckerberg of things. Jim Jordan continues to subpoena these companies to bring in their CEOs, to demand that they stop doing something that the data is not even proving they are doing. To me, that is actually the definition of jawboning, when you are using the power of your government office to tell a company, either you stop apparently censoring conservative speech, meaning you stop enforcing your own rules, whether it be around election misinformation or other-- at that time, it was COVID misinformation-- or we will continue to harass you and potentially make your life difficult. That's very problematic. Really quickly, we're almost out of time, but what do these social media rollbacks mean for online safety, democracy? Sure. So let's just be very clear. In 2020, there were election integrity policies in place. The very people who organized online, who spread the Stop the Steal narrative, did end up contributing directly to an insurrection on January 6. My question to Google, who is claiming they're going to start replatforming these people who broke their own rules around election denialism, are they going to bring them back on? And if they start trying to organize and foment violence again, if they start spreading very dangerous rhetoric, is that just going to be OK now because that will put them on the right side of this current administration?
MEG OLIVER:
00:04:08
All right. Yael Eisenstat, thank you so much for breaking all that down. So much going on in this space right now. We appreciate your time. Thank you.
