Stanford Public Humanities invites you to our first event of the year: Ryan Mac '11 and Kate Conger, New York Times Reporters and the authors of the new book, Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, in conversation with Charles Petersen. This event is co-sponsored by the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, American Studies, the Department of Communication, and Stanford Libraries. 

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. 

Charles Petersen is the Harold Hohbach historian at Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford. He has served as an editor at n+1 magazine for more than 15 years and has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Review of Books. He is currently working on a book around meritocracy in America, building on his Harvard doctoral research and his expertise on the history of Silicon Valley and the history of the U.S. political economy from the Gilded Age to the present. 

Tuesday, October 1 from 5:30-7:00 pm at Hohbach Hall in Green Library. The book will be available for purchase there.

Please register here to attend: https://stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3sCQn5W6rx2EpXU 

If the registration is closed, please email njabbar@stanford.edu. 

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