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Blaming Facebook won't solve the misinformation problem

Recode Daily

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Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The New York Times’ Shira Ovide, writes the popular and incisive On Tech newsletter, which means she gets to write about… everything. She sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to discuss some of her latest stories in her column like why “Tech Can’t Fix Everything”, how society rather than social media itself is more to blame for the spread of misinformation. This is just a portion of a longer, deeper conversation. Listen to the full episode here, and find more from Recode Media at Vox.com. Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:36.2

Today on Reco Daily, we are sharing an episode from Peter Kafka and our friends at Reco

0:49.6

Media.

0:50.6

Peter recently spoke with Shira Ovede, author of the on-tech newsletter at The New York

0:54.7

Times, and they talked in part about how social media is an accelerant for both good information

1:00.8

and misinformation, but also how Congress is struggling to pass targeted but effective

1:06.2

legislation to deal with the fallout.

1:08.4

So here's Peter and Shira.

1:10.6

Let's talk about Facebook first.

1:13.4

You're basically saying, hey, Facebook's responsible for a lot of stuff, but they're

1:16.6

not responsible for everything.

1:19.1

And when we make them responsible for everything, we take everyone else off the hook.

1:24.0

We'll just spell that out for me.

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