Brett Goldstein | Facebook's Disastrous Week, from Whistleblower Bombshell to Global Outage: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Seth takes a closer look at Facebook’s absolutely disastrous week filled with a damning whistleblower interview, an unprecedented outage and a shocking Senate hearing.
Then, Brett Goldstein reveals the embarrassing details about his Emmy win, talks about working as a writer and actor on Ted Lasso and complains about American football.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The Capitol Police removed demand. |
| 0:04.6 | From a suspicious SUV parked outside of the Supreme Court, the man was apparently so suspicious |
| 0:09.8 | Republicans want him on the Supreme Court. |
| 0:17.6 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night |
| 0:21.9 | with Seth Meyers. |
| 0:22.9 | On today's show, Seth Chats will actor and writer Brett Goldstein. |
| 0:26.5 | At first, a closer look. |
| 0:35.7 | Facebook has had an absolutely disastrous week with a damning whistleblower interview |
| 0:40.5 | on Sunday, an unprecedented outage on Monday, and then a Senate hearing yesterday on how |
| 0:45.3 | the company dismantled safeguards and fostered a business model where dangerous misinformation |
| 0:50.4 | can spread. |
| 0:51.5 | For more on this, it's time for a closer look. |
| 0:57.8 | Things have not been going great for the world's most powerful social media platform. |
| 1:02.2 | On Sunday, a whistleblower, who filed complaints against the company with federal law enforcement, |
| 1:06.6 | revealed herself on 60 minutes and said the company is aware of the harm it causes and |
| 1:10.9 | prioritizes profits over safety. |
| 1:12.9 | On Monday, Facebook and its family of apps, including WhatsApp and Instagram, suffered |
| 1:17.3 | unprecedented outages, and on Tuesday, the same whistleblower testified before Congress |
| 1:22.1 | and said the company's products harmed children and hides what it knows from the public. |
| 1:26.6 | Suffice it to say Facebook is at a *** week. |
| 1:28.8 | It's the kind of week you'd normally post about on Facebook. |
| 1:33.5 | Facebook had a worse week than the Yankees or worse yet. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of NBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.