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Going Down With the Censorships
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.
Song:
“Fall of the S.S. Twitter” by Samson the Truest, strings and engineering by Jesse Kotansky (Original song commissioned by This American Life)
More in Work
Act Three: Amelia Bedelia Works From Home
Literally, Amelia Bedelia works from home. (4 minutes)
Act Two: The $25 Tip
The pandemic forced restaurant server Shelly Ortiz to put on her “Covid Goggles.” What she saw through them made her reevaluate her ideas of what’s important.
Act Three: Teacher Number Four
In Maine, early childhood educator Miss Jordyn Rossignol had several members of her workforce quit.
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Nancy Updike goes to Iraq to try to figure out what it's like to be a private citizen working in the middle of a war zone.
Harper High School - Part One
We spent five months at a high school in Chicago where in the last year 29 current and recent students were shot.