Can Facebook Save Itself From Ruin?

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🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Facebook has gone from being a viral sensation to a virus people want nothing to do with anymore. This week, amid more bad news for the social network, Casey Newton of the Verge joins Nick to take him inside Facebook’s troubled moderator division, and later in the show, the venture capitalist Roger McNamee, who made his fortunes investing in Facebook, explains why he’s soured on the company that made him so rich. Nevertheless, he still believes its leaders, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, can save themselves, and in turn, the company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.0	Welcome to Inside the Hive. I'm your host Nick Bilton.
1:18.0	So today I don't have just one special guest,
1:21.0	but I have two very special guests and we're going to be
1:24.5	talking about one topic but from two different points of view. So my first
1:28.1	guest is Casey Newton who is the Virges reporter on all things tech and he recently had a
1:35.7	fascinating story which took you inside one of the facilities for Facebook that
1:40.9	is forced to do moderation of all the worst content on the
1:44.4	platform. So imagine for a moment you have a new job as a moderator at
1:49.2	Facebook just to kind of paint the room for what this is like. Every single time someone tags a video or photo
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