Dr. Tarleton Gillespie, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Associate Professor of Communication at Cornell University, guests for our 100th episode!

We revisit Dr. Gillespie’s 2010 study “The Politics of Platforms” as well as discuss his latest book: “Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media.”

We discuss how social media companies strategically position themselves through discourse, the early adoption of social media by advertisers and political campaigns, and how content moderation shapes our interactions with platforms and politics.