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🗓️ 24 January 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about Facebook’s fraught plan to rate the media and the cool yet creepy Amazon store that automatically bills you for your purchases. The hosts are joined by Daily Beast technology and culture reporter Taylor Lorenz to talk about the incredible fame, wealth, and influence of young YouTube stars—and their startling business savvy. And, as always, Don’t Close My Tabs: Netflix’s price hike and an inside scoop on last year’s bizarre blow-up by the CEO of HQ Trivia.
Don’t Close My Tabs:
The Washington Post: Netflix raised its prices, and we kept subscribing anywayThe Daily Beast: CEO of HQ, the Hottest App Going: If You Run This Profile, We’ll Fire Our Host
Podcast production by Max Jacobs.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm April Glazer. |
| 0:11.8 | And I'm Will Aramis. |
| 0:23.7 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to If Then. |
| 0:28.0 | We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. |
| 0:30.0 | We're recording this on the afternoon of Tuesday, January 23rd. |
| 0:33.3 | On today's show, we're going to talk about Amazon's new high-tech checkout-free convenience stores. |
| 0:39.5 | And we'll talk about Facebook's new plan to rate the media by trustworthiness. |
| 0:43.4 | What could go wrong? |
| 0:44.5 | Later, we will be joined by Taylor Lorenz, a culture and tech reporter for The Daily Beast, |
| 0:49.8 | about a world that's relatively new to me but has been brewing for a few years now, teen YouTube stars. |
| 0:55.4 | They've become wildly popular and extremely rich, but they're also incredibly controversial. |
| 1:01.4 | And lastly, don't close my tabs. Our picks for the best on the web this week. |
| 1:05.9 | All right, Will. So what are you writing about this week? What's on your mind? |
| 1:10.2 | Well, we talked last week about the big changes to Facebook's news feed. |
| 1:13.3 | Facebook's year of soul searching continues, and their latest step has been to try to develop a way to differentiate trustworthy news sources from those that might be misleading or sensational or fake news or low quality in some way or another, they're |
| 1:28.5 | actually going to be surveying users and saying, hey, do you trust the New York Times? |
| 1:34.1 | Do you trust Fox News? |
| 1:36.4 | Do you trust boardpanda.com to deliver you the news? |
| 1:41.4 | And the company says they will use the results of those surveys to help with their news feed algorithm, which determines what posts you see at the top of the news. And the company says they will use the results of those surveys to help with |
| 1:44.9 | their news feed algorithm, which determines what posts you see at the top of your feed. So in theory, |
| 1:49.8 | this could be a boost for reputable news outlets like the New York Times, and it could hurt fake |
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