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797: What I Was Thinking As We Were Sinking
Act Two

Going Down With the Censorships

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When to leave Twitter is a question lots of executives faced when Elon Musk took over the company — those who weren't immediately fired, anyway. We hear an insider’s account from the man who ran Trust & Safety at the company, until he couldn’t stand it anymore. (28 minutes)

Casey Newton makes the newsletter Platformer and co-hosts the podcast Hard Fork from The New York Times.

By Casey Newton; Produced by David Kestenbaum and Davis Land

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“Fall of the S.S. Twitter” by Samson the Truest, strings and engineering by Jesse Kotansky (Original song commissioned by This American Life)

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