Bossing the Tech Bosses
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On the day that the world's biggest tech companies defend their firms against claims they abuse their power, Adam is joined by the BBC’s Aleem Maqbool and Jessica Lessin from technology business publication, The Information.
Studio Directors: Emma Crowe, Mike Addley Producers: Frankie Tobi, Natalie Ktena Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, you know they say the news never stops. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, normally they mean that there's lots of news stories in a day |
| 0:10.6 | and you're just going, I can't keep up with them all. Well what it meant today |
| 0:14.8 | was that in Washington DC some big tech bosses were testifying to some congressmen and congresswomen on a committee about whether the tech giants |
| 0:26.4 | had got too big and were affecting people's lives. |
| 0:30.4 | And it went on and on. |
| 0:34.4 | So first of all, there was loads of procedural stuff |
| 0:37.4 | where the politicians were arguing amongst each other, |
| 0:39.8 | and there was gavels being banged. |
| 0:42.2 | And then the CEOs, these really big important interesting people, |
| 0:46.4 | read out these five minute long statements each. And get this, they'd already published them on the internet and then there |
| 0:55.7 | was some more procedural stuff and then the question started. So I thought this was going to take |
| 1:00.1 | an hour and a half, but by this point I was late for my dinner with my friends in |
| 1:06.1 | their back garden so I'm now recording this bit of the podcast and my friends |
| 1:10.8 | back garden because the hearing is still going on. |
| 1:14.0 | Luckily our colleagues in Washington have been listening to every bit of it and we've got some other |
| 1:19.7 | stuff as well for things that are happening in the rest of the world today. |
| 1:23.0 | And so you'll get up to date and I'll finish my dinner in the back garden on this edition of |
| 1:28.8 | Newscast. |
| 1:29.8 | Newscast. |
| 1:30.8 | Newscast from the BBC. |
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