A turning point for Facebook?
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Will US press reports about Facebook bring tighter regulation or a breakup a step closer? Plus, the British startup that wants to power the metaverse. And the plan to connect the UK’s museum and gallery collections to online visitors and researchers. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC senior tech reporter Jane Wakefield. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Credit: Getty Images).
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| 0:49.9 | Hello and welcome to TechTent, your weekly guide to all the hottest news and trends from the technology world. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm Rory Ketland-Jones, and this week a multifaceted investigation by the Wall Street Journal accuses Facebook |
| 1:02.4 | of knowing just how much damage its services are doing but failing to act. |
| 1:07.5 | The man who wrote a sympathetic account of the social media giants rise tells us he now wants it reigned in. |
| 1:14.4 | For nine years, the London startup improbable has been talking up its plans to build virtual worlds. |
| 1:20.6 | Its founder explains why its role in the metaverse will finally help it turn a profit. |
| 1:26.3 | And museums, galleries and archives |
| 1:28.6 | have loads of their best exhibits locked away. |
| 1:31.5 | We'll find out about a British plan |
| 1:33.0 | to digitise their collections |
| 1:34.4 | and open them up for all. |
| 1:36.6 | Joining me this week is BBC's senior tech reporter Jane Wakefield. |
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