Are We Having a Moral Panic About Instagram? — With NYT's Farhad Manjoo

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Management, Religion, Politics, Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Investing, Marketing, News Commentary, Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Business, Tech News, Philosophy, Government, Technology

4.7 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Farhad Manjoo is an opinion columnist for the New York Times. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether the criticism of Instagram's impact on kids is overblown, the subject of a recent column. Stay tuned for the third segment, where we discuss Farhad's views of virtual reality, his Thanksgiving column, and his cats. Subscribe to Big Technology: https://bigtechnology.substack.com/ Farhad's story about Instagram: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/opinion/instagram-teenagers.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.7	of the tech world and beyond.
1:13.3	Joining us today is a guest that needs no introduction, but we will introduce him nonetheless.
1:18.9	Farhad Manju is here with us. He's an opinion columnist from New York Times, a longtime observer and reporter on tech, who's now brought it out a little bit. So I think it's a
1:28.3	great week for us to discuss what's happening to our society, how much the internet has impacted
1:34.5	that, and where people might be putting a little too much emphasis. Really kind of perfect for
1:40.6	our pledge to do nuanced conversations. I think this will be one that you're going to
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