How the Internet Turned Darker
The idealistic internet of 20 years ago has taken a turn to the dystopian. Kate Conger and Ryan Mac reveal how billionaire Elon Musk took over one of the key platforms and yanked it right. Elle Reeve reports how the darkest plotlines of the internet sometimes spill out into the real world.
| Fast Passes: | This event has free Fast Passes. Fast Passes are not available yet. |
| Where: | Integrated Learning Center Room 120 (Seats 300, Wheelchair accessible)  |
| When: | Sun, Mar 16, 10:00 am - 10:55 am |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - Integrated Learning Center (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Current Issues / Politics / Social Science |
| Moderator: | Dylan Smith |
| Sponsors: | Session made possible courtesy of JoAnne and Bob Hungate, Chuck and Carol Otto, Tucson Sentinel |
Panelists
Kate CongerKate Conger is a technology reporter for the New York Times. She writes about X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, and its owner, Elon Musk. In more than a decade of covering the tech industry, she has written about the underground world of hackers, the use of artificial intelligence in autonomous weapons and labor uprisings in the gig economy....
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Ryan MacRyan Mac is a Los Angeles-based technology reporter for the New York Times. He has spent more than a decade reporting on wealth and power in Silicon Valley, first on staff at Forbes, and then at BuzzFeed News, where he was a senior reporter....
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Elle ReeveElle Reeve is a correspondent for CNN, where she reported from the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. She previously worked for Vice News, where she won two Emmys and a Peabody for her documentary on the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017....
Books:
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
Kate Conger, Ryan Mac
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Penguin Group
September 2024
ISBN 9780593656136
480 pages
Buy nowThe richest man on earth controlled one of the most powerful media platforms in the world--but at what price? Before long Twitter would be gone for good, replaced by something radically different, as Musk remade the company in his own image from the ground up.
The story of the showdown between Musk and Twitter and his eventual takeover of the company is unlike anything in business or media that has come before. In vivid, cinematic detail, Conger and Mac follow the inner workings of the company as Musk lays siege to it, first from the outside as one of its most vocal users, and then finally from within as a contentious and mercurial leader. Musk has shared some of his version of events, but Conger and Mac have uncovered the full story through exclusive interviews, unreported documents, and internal recordings at Twitter following the billionaire's takeover. With unparalleled sources from within and around the company, they provide a revelatory, three-dimensional, and definitive account of what really happened when Musk showed up, spoiling for a brawl and intent on revolution, with his merciless, sycophantic cadre of lawyers, investors, and bankers.
This is the defining story of our time told with uncommon style and peerless rigor. In a world of viral ideas and emotion, who gets to control the narrative, who gets to be heard, and what does power really cost? More/less
Black Pill
How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
Elle Reeve
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Simon and Schuster
July 2024
ISBN 9781982198886
304 pages
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