When Vivian Schiller signed on as a senior executive at Twitter in 2013, she was excited

to be joining a company that seemed poised to remake the world.

It was a heady time for the social media start-up.

Just a few years earlier, it had been messages on Twitter that connected democracy activists

throughout the Middle East, leading to a revolutionary moment known as the Arab Spring.

But Schiller soon became disillusioned and has long since left the company.

In the years since, Twitter was increasingly hijacked by purveyors of hate and disinformation,

following democracy instead of spreading it.

Now, billionaire Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, fired half its workforce, and

signaled plans to revise, if not roll back, the content moderation policies that led the

company to kick Donald Trump off the platform for spreading election lies.

We'll talk to Schiller about what we should make of the must-takeover and what it portends

for the future of Twitter, social media, and American democracy on this episode of Skull

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