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On the Media

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On the Media

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4.68.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Facebook, free will and the future of tech.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This was a major breach of trust, and I'm really sorry that this happened.

0:04.9

Facebook caught playing fast and loose with personal data big time.

0:09.3

Is this a turning point for the social network?

0:11.5

We all hate to love and love to hate.

0:13.8

If you took China and you added the entire population of America,

0:17.0

and then you added the entire population of America again. That is Facebook.

0:21.4

Our brains are constantly being commentared by these technologies that have been reversed engineered to

0:27.2

addict us.

0:28.3

One of the funniest things about the coverage of the story is that those who know the least

0:31.2

about ads are the most convinced of the supernatural powers of advertising and what Cambridge

0:34.8

Analytica did.

0:35.9

And those who most know ads are the ones who are most skeptical of their claims.

0:39.4

The problem with Mark Zuckerberg is he's deeply uneducated.

0:42.8

He seems not to have considered the terrible things that human beings can and have done to each other.

0:48.4

We have a basic responsibility to protect people's data.

0:51.5

And if we can't do that, then we don't deserve to have the opportunity

0:54.3

to serve people. Like it or not. It's all coming up after this.

1:04.7

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Bob Garfield.

1:10.9

Late last week, the New York Times and The Observer of London

1:14.6

released the results of a months-long investigation into the political data firm, Cambridge Analytica.

1:21.1

The story was delicious, and the cast of characters straight out of a Bond movie.

1:27.4

There was the wealthy, arch- out of a Bond movie.

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