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Ro Khanna: Twitter and Facebook Erred in Suppressing Hunter Biden Story
“In fact, you know, in the book I write about how I thought it was a mistake for Twitter to take down some of this stuff about Hunter Biden or Facebook to do that. And I think that story was total hogwash. I think Joe Biden was unfairly attacked because of his …”
Gerstner: Twitter cut headcount 80% while boosting product releases 70%
“Elon, with the work that he's done at Twitter, right, they reduced headcount by 70, 80%. And the product release cycle is probably gone up by at least 70%, right? It's incredible what they have in the pipeline there, and the fact that they're doing this with, …”
Lonsdale: My Twitter account was throttled before Musk's acquisition
“When my friends bought Twitter with Elon they actually, my account was also a throttle.”
Rubin: Censorship on Facebook and YouTube Was Likely Worse Than Twitter
“I would argue Facebook was probably even worse. YouTube may have been worse. We don't even know, but.”
Gil: Twitter couldn't deploy code for weeks during MixerLabs acquisition
“At the same time when we were bought they couldn't what's known as deploy code, they couldn't update the website. And they hadn't been updating it for weeks. They just didn't know how to update the code.”
Balaji Srinivasan: Web centralization was necessary before blockchains enabled decentralized global state
“Model view controller leads to centralization because technologically we couldn't represent global state. We couldn't decentralize the database. Okay. We had to have it a central hub like a Facebook or a Twitter or a PayPal which are great companies. Don't get…”
Lonsdale: Media focused exclusively on three controversial tweets out of 3,500
“I know, I mean, even for myself, I think I checked, I have 3500 tweets as of the time we're recording this, and I think there's been like three of them that were controversial, then the media like wrote all the stories about those, nothing else, even though th…”