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Episode 148 — Facebook Fatigue

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss Mark Zuckerberg’s appearances before Congress, and try to sort out exactly which Facebook issues matter, and which don’t. Presented by WordPress.com: Get 15% off on a new site by visiting WordPress.com/Exponent. Links Ben Thompson: The Facebook Current — Stratechery Zeynep Tufekci: Why Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook — Wired Ben Thompson: Fake News — Stratechery The Toutiao Apology — China Media Project Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo — And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed — BuzzFeed Ben Thompson: The Facebook Brand — Stratechery There’s … Continue reading Episode 148 — Facebook Fatigue

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0:00.0

Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I am okay. How are you? I'm doing well. You moved a couple of weeks ago,

0:09.2

and this coming week it's going to be my turn, so life's about to go into boxes. Not not drop box,

0:16.0

real boxes. Real boxes, yeah. There's no dropbox equivalent for moving in Silicon Valley yet, but I'm sure

0:22.4

somebody's thought of it. Now we're going to get like 15 email pitches, which by the way,

0:27.1

there are definitely some, I've definitely seen pitches for like Dropbox for like real stuff.

0:32.1

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0:40.9

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0:47.5

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0:50.7

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0:54.6

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0:55.8

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0:58.2

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1:00.3

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1:03.1

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1:03.8

I like that.

1:05.1

So instead of even messing around with 24-7-4-7, just blow it out.

1:09.9

I like that.

1:11.3

It's a very, approach the problem.

1:13.8

Don't get, don't get stuck in your sort of local maxima, like back out and say, can I deal with this in another way?

1:19.3

Absolutely.

1:20.4

Very good.

1:21.4

So, sorry, I'm not distracted.

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