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Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Facebook has been paying 13- to 35-year-olds $20 in exchange for access to their phones and Apple isn't happy about it. The Verge’s Casey Newton explains what happens when your hardware gets mad at your software. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Casey, how are you?
0:01.2	I'm fantastic, how are you?
0:02.4	I'm well, thank you for making time for us on such short notice today.
0:05.6	Well, I'm happy to.
0:06.6	You know, we just have to explain today and this feels like a pretty good thing to explain.
0:11.4	It was this or the polar vortex. We're going with this, I think.
0:14.0	You know, some people have likened Facebook to a polar vortex.
0:16.6	Ha, perfect.
0:22.0	Casey Newton, you're the Silicon Valley editor at The Verge.
0:25.1	The last time we had you on the show late last year,
0:28.0	we were talking about this crazy Facebook scandal that involved Cheryl Sandberg and George
0:32.9	Soros and this fake news PR firm. But of course, now there's a new Facebook scandal.
0:39.3	There's just always a new Facebook scandal.
0:42.0	Yeah, Old Man Facebook has really stepped in it again this time.
0:45.0	What happened?
0:46.0	Well, Facebook had a marketing research division that was doing something really unusual.
0:54.0	Facebook under fire once more this time for secretly paying people, unbelievable.
0:58.4	To install a smartphone app that lets the company monitor all the phone and web activity that's
1:03.4	on your phone, guys.
1:04.5	It created an app called Facebook Research and then it would use various intermediaries to find
1:10.4	people who are between the ages of 13 and 35. And what it would ask them to do is install what's
1:17.7	called a root certificate on their phones that would then provide Facebook with access to really
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