Ep. 149 | Social Media Giants and Guns – An Inside Look

Vortex Nation Podcast

Sports, Vortex Optics, Shooting, Scope, Gun, Long Range, Wilderness, Hunting, Riflescope, Vortex, Vortex Nation Podcast, Binoculars, Vortex Nation, Optics, Rifle

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🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy, Mark and Erik sit down with Chuck Rossi, avid firearms enthusiast and former Facebook employee where he worked as an engineer behind the scenes and the “subject matter expert” on all things gun related in the company. There seems to be a million and one theories as to why social giants like this have tended to be so stringent upon the gun and hunting industry. Listening to Chuck, some of the reasons likely won’t shock you, but others may be a bit more surprising in terms of the fact that there are many misunderstandings and fundamental lack of education within organizations and groups of individuals. We learn a bit more about “safety regulated goods” on platforms like Facebook and the blocking of buy/sell/trade of firearms and related parts on their site. Certainly a sore subject for many of us in this industry, but luckily Chuck throws out some really great insight into how gun pages on these platforms can promote themselves responsibly, within the rules, and set themselves up to get the best organic reach possible – even if they can’t run ads or directly sell on their page. So, if you like guns and hunting and find yourself on social media frequently, whether it’s for business and leisure, you should definitely tune in to this one! As always, we want to hear your feedback! Let us know if there are any topics you'd like covered on the Vortex Nation podcast by asking us on Instagram @vortexnationpodcast

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and Good Food. What's up everybody? We've got an interesting podcast topic for you here today.
0:22.0	We are joined virtually by Chuck Rossi, like the firearms,
0:25.7	we were just explaining that, on the computer here, but then in the room we've got Jimmy on the
0:29.9	mic, we got Mark to my left and across the table Eric Barber welcome back it's been
0:33.8	a minute it has been a hot minute yes yes it's just gonna bring that up
0:37.2	too long it's very fitting that you're on this one as well I obviously as well as
0:41.6	Chuck which we'll get into because you are the
0:43.9	social media manager here and we're actually going to talk about social media
0:48.3	a bit now the topic of obviously if you're listening to this podcast you're probably a bit
0:53.9	savvy with social media and you're probably in or around the hunting and shooting
0:58.8	industry and so certainly our industry and social media at times seemingly haven't always gotten along perhaps.
1:09.7	It can be a complex relationship.
1:11.7	It can be and you know I've seen all kinds of comments out there you probably have
1:16.1	to listening to this where people are talking about you know Facebook or
1:20.1	Instagram or YouTube or whatever you know limiting them, taking posts down, doing all kinds of censorship
1:25.8	and stuff.
1:26.8	And you know, many people have become frustrated and also not only frustrated by the idea that it could be happening but also frustrated by the seemingly mysticness of it all.
1:38.5	Why does it work? How does it work? Are we being targeted? Is it just a matter of just that's what it happens?
1:44.5	So anyways, we'll let Chuck introduce himself here. I don't want to talk too much on the beginning,
1:48.6	but one thing we'll just, it's a caveat, you know, we want to throw out, is that we're not here, you guys want to throw out is that we're not here you guys have to
1:54.4	understand those listening this isn't we have to be careful and I'm sure Chuck
1:59.6	maybe get into that a little bit but we have to be careful because we don't
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