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🗓️ 13 April 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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It's a bonus MDC! Here's the Facebook testimony portion of the episode we couldn't contain.
"Facebook needs to protect BLM because I, as a US senator will not."
"Diamond & Silk are sexy, conservative "sistas" whose facebook account MUST be promoted on the floor of congress."
"How come Facebook knows everything I post?"
[6 paragraphs of terrible PR advice left for Zuccerberg in the comments section of a Daily Caller facebook post]
"I'm so terrible even Amber Alert blocked me."
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0:00.0 | All right, so, uh, obviously, uh, Facebook was on trial today in the Senate, in Congress, rather. |
0:12.6 | Um, this whole thing about Facebook, like being under scrutiny is pretty much because of Cambridge Analytica, right? |
0:23.8 | That's like been lost in this conversation, at least on the right. |
0:30.4 | Yeah, they forgot. |
0:31.3 | They don't want it to be about Cambridge Analytica. |
0:34.9 | They want this to be about Facebook targeting conservatives, which is a totally real thing |
0:40.3 | that doesn't only exist in the minds of conservatives on Facebook. |
0:46.7 | But the main thrusts of the, I don't know, you watched the hearing, right? |
0:55.0 | Yeah, I watched a lot of the hearing. |
0:56.7 | I kind of had it on in the background because it was hours long. |
1:00.2 | I mean, the Cambridge Analytica thing is like, it's not as crazy of an issue to me as it's being made out. |
1:09.9 | And this is like, I'm at risk sounding like a pedantic, |
1:16.5 | well actually guy. But the thing is, Facebook only exists to get your data. Yeah. That's like |
1:25.7 | literally why Facebook exists. They want to have your data. Yeah. That's like literally why Facebook exists. |
1:28.1 | They want to have your data so that they can sell you stuff. |
1:32.4 | They want to have your data so they can sell it to other people. |
1:37.1 | That's why it's around. |
1:38.2 | So if you do things like allow apps access to your likes and your friends pages and and |
1:47.4 | your information then they're going to have your information like that's that's the way it |
1:52.4 | works and um if you if you go online and sign into facebook to take a quiz on you know uh, whether Loretta Lynch should be Loretta lynched. |
2:05.6 | They're going to have your information. |
2:07.7 | Yeah, that's data. |
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