#566 Facebook’s No Good Very Bad Day

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Alise, Bryan, and Amanda debrief on the Instagram outage and how they made use of the time. They discuss how the worldwide disruption highlights how deeply Facebook’s platforms are embedded in our lives -- and why that should scare us. They also detail a FB whistleblower’s allegation the company knowingly drives hostility and anger to help its bottom line. Finally, they settle into congressional corner to share updates from the Dems’ breakthrough and why it’s absolutely no problem that protesters followed Kyrsten Sinema into the bathroom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Betcha's media presents Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President.
0:04.0	You want to hang out with us and get your back seat.
0:07.0	And so I went to human resources.
0:09.0	There are some things I just can't tell you on air.
0:12.0	The Betcha's sub-podcast.
0:14.0	A woman's problem if you will.
0:18.0	Hello, I'm Amanda Duperman.
0:20.0	I'm Elise Morales.
0:22.0	I'm Brian Russus Smith.
0:23.0	And this is the Betcha's sub-podcast.
0:25.0	Where you spam, use the group chat to help you process and laugh at the biggest topics in US news and politics.
0:31.0	The urgent question of the day.
0:33.0	What did you do during the six-hour Instagram outage?
0:37.0	What did you do, Elise?
0:38.0	What did you get done?
0:39.0	And those God-for-sake in six hours when we didn't have access to Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp?
0:45.0	I was, I'll actually say I don't want to make anyone jealous.
0:49.0	Because I was incredibly productive.
0:51.0	Wow.
0:52.0	I not only watched the many saints of New York.
0:54.0	I also, I also restarted the sopranos.
1:00.0	So I really used the time as wisely as I possibly could.
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