Could Meta do more to protect us from cyber scams?

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

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Many small businesses are online now, but so are cyber criminals trying to take advantage. On today's show, how one bar owner fell victim to a Facebook scam and if big tech could do more to protect small business owners from increasing cyber attacks. Read Stephan's original piece.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:02.0	This is the indicator from Planet Money.
0:13.4	I'm Darren Woods.
0:14.5	And back with me for a second day in a row is friend of the show, Stephen Visaha, from
0:20.0	the Gulf States Newsroom.
0:21.4	Good to be back with you, Daryon.
0:22.9	And today, I have a very different story for you about small businesses, like the Little
0:28.9	House.
0:29.8	It's this neighborhood bar in New Orleans, the kind of place where you can sip wine while
0:35.1	surrounded by taxidermied alligators and chicken feet.
0:39.0	We're swamp chic, if you will.
0:41.3	Swamp's cheek? I hadn't heard that one before.
0:43.3	That is the bar's owner, Hillary Hanning.
0:45.6	You look around. We've got taxidermy and all kinds of stuff,
0:48.7	but it's like encompassed with this very bougie-esque, really cool boutiquey wine selection and
0:55.6	fun cocktails and stuff.
0:57.3	It's struggling to death, but we're having fun.
1:00.3	Now, the real reason we're here
1:02.2	is the source of some of that struggle.
1:05.1	Hillary's been dealing with a problem
1:06.6	that's harmed thousands of small businesses
1:08.7	and caused many to shut down.
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