MSNBC Interviews COO of X’s Rival Bluesky: ‘Most of These Platforms Are Run by Men; Bluesky Is Run by Two Women’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
MENENDEZ: “Rose, one of the big challenges, of course, for all social media platforms is the concept of moderation, specifically how you fact check, what your responsibility is to those who spread propaganda, disinformation, misinformation, while also cultivating and allowing for an environment that welcomes various perspectives and points of views. How are you at bluesky walking that tight rope?”

WANG: “Well, I just heard you guys talk about what the responsibility is to women, and I think first of all there are so many women on social media platforms and most of these platforms are run by men. Bluesky is run by two women, me as the coo and Jay graber as the CEO. One of the biggest differences is we just put safety as a priority. What did that look like? It means last year when we had invite codes we didn’t open it up because we wanted to have a stronger moderation team. We brought over Aaron rodderic who used leads us here at bluesk it goes back to user choice. There are so many things between intolerance, hate speech and people having a bad experience that isn’t governed on most social media platforms. There’s deepfakes, rude posts, speculative information, and so on most other platforms there’s nothing you can do about those types of content. On bluesky any user can go and create a labeler and that can sit on top of our moderation service, where if you don’t want to see political content there’s a labeler that hides all of that content for you. All you have to do is subscribe to that. So it is this type of approach that gives power back to the people, that allows social media to evolve and change without waiting on us, a smaller—“