Oct
29

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
A Book Launch and Conversation with authors Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, in Dialogue with UCI Law Professor David Kaye 

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 | 5:00-6:15 PM
Humanities Instructional Building 135

This event focuses on the new book Character Limit, which was published in September, 2024 to strong review. The Washington Post review describes it as "riveting," while the Forbes one calls it "masterful" and a "page turner." The Guardian calls it a "triumph." 

Kate Conger writes about X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, and its owner, Elon Musk. In more than a decade of covering the tech industry, she has written about the underground world of hackers, the use of artificial intelligence in autonomous weapons and labor uprisings in the gig economy.

Ryan Mac has spent more than a decade reporting on wealth and power in Silicon Valley, first on staff at Forbes, and then at BuzzFeed News, where he was a senior reporter. He led the outlet’s deep reporting on Facebook, which garnered a 2019 Mirror Award and a 2021 George R. Polk Award. He holds a B.A. in American Studies from Stanford. 

David Kaye is Clinical Professor of Law at UC Irvine, the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and author of Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet (2019). 

Sponsored by UCI's Forum for the Academy and the Public and the School of Law, with support from The History Department.