Episode 174 — Distracted at Facebook

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss Facebook from multiple angles, including child sexual abuse material, encryption, Oculus, and a leaked all-hands meeting. Links Ben Thompson: Friction — Stratechery The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went Wrong? — New York Times Ben Thompson: Child Sexual Abuse Material Online, The Problem With Community, Towards More Friction — Stratechery Casey Newton: Read The Full Transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s Leaked Internal Facebook Meetings — The Verge Ben Thompson: Facebook’s All-Hands Leak, Facebook Versus Warren, Zuckerberg’s Culture — Stratechery Attorney General Bill Barr Will Ask Zuckerberg To Halt Plans For End-To-End … Continue reading Episode 174 — Distracted at Facebook

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0:00.0	Hi, James.
0:01.2	Ben, how are you?
0:02.8	I am doing okay.
0:03.8	It is a Friday night.
0:05.2	I am giving up my weekend so that the masses may be satisfied with our podcast sacrifice.
0:10.8	I'm doing this from London and I'm still dealing with jet lag.
0:14.1	So it's both of us making the sacrifices right now.
0:16.7	That's right.
0:17.1	We just want to reclaim the powering through the powering through crown.
0:20.8	Speaking of the crown.
0:22.1	So this week, I thought we would talk about a subject that is near and dear to our hearts.
0:26.5	Something we haven't talked about.
0:27.7	It's really been too long, James.
0:29.2	And that is Facebook.
0:30.4	Oh, I was going to ask you, what could that possibly be?
0:33.1	But I guess that makes sense.
0:35.1	Well, so it kind of turned into a Facebook week on trajectory, and actually,
0:39.0	it's continued since then. So just a quick rundown on the week. On Monday, or over the weekend,
0:44.0	I should say, the New York Times ran a big article about a child sexual abuse material, which I
0:48.7	wrote about on Monday. And frankly, this is one where what I wrote, I was actually kind of almost
0:53.9	surprised myself in some respects, but it's a position I've been sort of coming to over time, I was actually kind of almost surprised myself
0:54.5	with some respects, but it's a position I've been sort of coming to over time. So I'd kind of
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