🤷🏻‍♂️ What Musk needs to know - New_ Public

Rep. Ro Khanna on responsibility and Integrity Institute fellows on deplatforming

This week the internet continued to reel in response to the news about Elon Musk attempting to buy Twitter. To take us beyond the viral echo chamber with a nuanced response on Musk and Twitter, we have a special preview of our upcoming magazine issue on Trust: an excerpt of the interview between New_ Public Co-director Eli Pariser and Congressman Ro Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley. Also, we turn again to our friends at the Integrity Institute, who we profiled recently in the newsletter. In particular, this week integrity (or trust and safety) workers at Twitter were left wondering how…

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