VIA BEETCAM — They often say it takes a crisis to really change. So how does coronavirus promise to change the technology industry?<\/p>\n
If and when COVID-19 passes:<\/p>\n
Those are the views of Kara Swisher<\/a>, editor-in-large at Recode and a veteran tech writer.<\/p>\n In this video interview with Beet.TV, Swisher comments on efforts by social and tech platforms to combat coronavirus misinformation, which have seen them take unprecedented steps<\/a>, arguably at odds with previous protestations that they cannot control content on their networks.<\/p>\n “It shows that they can<\/em> control these things<\/strong>,” Swisher says. “Of course they can. They always could.<\/p>\n “This shows that, when it comes to a crisis – or something easier for the public to swallow, rather than political advertising – they can certainly fix it<\/strong> and do a great job. They can monitor their platforms, they can control their platforms, they can make sure that people get great information, because ‘this time it really matters’.<\/p>\n “But it (also) matters all the other times<\/strong>. Let me just say, it matters when we have our political discourse poisoned, it matters when we have hate speech on there and our society is poisoned.”<\/p>\n If and when COVID-19 abates, that could place the platforms in a sticky policy situation – if they can control misinformation in Q1 2020, when not every day in the future?<\/p>\n Still, Swisher thinks lawmakers that, until now, were promising a tech clampdown will take their eyes off that ball.<\/p>\n “They’re going to emerge pretty well from this, because I think Wall Street and politicians aren’t going to have a stomach to go after these tech giants as much as they did before the crisis<\/strong>,” she tells Beet.TV.<\/p>\n “There is a lot of momentum growing for antitrust, or fines, or laws and things like that. I think that’s going to take a back seat to repairing the country. So in this way, they’ve gotten a breather on some of the pressure that was coming.”<\/p>\n Swisher has recently written about Zoom videoconferencing<\/a> and tech’s chances of surviving the virus<\/a> for The New York Times.<\/p>\n Swisher was interviewed remotely by BeetCam.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" VIA BEETCAM — They often say it takes a crisis to really change. So how does coronavirus promise to change the technology industry? If and when COVID-19 passes: tech platforms will evade looming regulation. they will be unable to avoid categorization as editors. newly-remote workers will ultimately ditch Zoom and go back to the office. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":65659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[]},"categories":[8292],"tags":[8308,8309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}