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How Facebook and Twitter Handled the Election: An Interview with ‘Daily Beast’ Editor-in-Chief Noah Shachtman

‘If Trump was going to win this thing … it was because of the heroic efforts of Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg’

OneZero is partnering with the Big Technology Podcast from Alex Kantrowitz to bring readers exclusive access to interview transcripts with notable figures in and around the tech industry.

This week, Kantrowitz sits down with Daily Beast editor-in-chief in an “emergency” podcast to talk about the election results and how the tech platforms handled election day. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Facebook and Twitter are playing major roles in the 2020 election. Both are labeling President Donald Trump’s posts as he tried to dispute the election’s integrity; both have helped amp up the political tension in the country by building partisan echo chambers that tend to amplify the fringe. As the election results came in on November 4, the Daily Beast’s editor-in-chief, Noah Shactman, joined the Big…