Ep 502 | Facebook Whistleblower: Dem Operative or Hero? | Guest: Rachel Bovard
Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Blaze Podcast Network
4.8 • 25.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to relatable happy Thursday. Hope everyone has had a wonderful week so far. |
| 0:15.1 | Today we are talking to Rachel Beauvard. She is a journalist. She writes about big tech and we've |
| 0:24.5 | had her on the podcast before talking to her about the solutions that she proposes to the power |
| 0:31.6 | that big tech holds in the lives of Americans and even the power that they have to influence our |
| 0:38.6 | elections and why that's a problem and where she thinks the federal government should step in and |
| 0:44.0 | try to curb some of the influence that they have. She's coming from a conservative perspective though |
| 0:50.3 | whereas as we will talk about today, Democrats who want more authority over these technology |
| 0:58.7 | companies seem to want to do so not because they want to protect the country from their influence |
| 1:06.0 | but because they actually want to try to control the flow of information and the messages |
| 1:11.6 | that especially the political messages that the American public is receiving. So Rachel Beauvard |
| 1:17.3 | is very nuanced on this issue. She is very well versed on this issue. She is going to talk to us a |
| 1:22.8 | little bit about that but really what we're focusing on is this Facebook whistleblower or if she's |
| 1:28.4 | being called a whistleblower. Her name is Frances Hagen. She testified during the Senate Commerce |
| 1:34.0 | Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data Security. |
| 1:40.2 | She worked for Facebook and she came out and said, you know, Facebook is doing all of these bad |
| 1:45.2 | things. They know that they're doing bad things and also she believes that Facebook should step |
| 1:50.4 | or the government should step in and should basically regulate Facebook. There's some disagreement |
| 1:56.5 | on the right in the left about whether or not she is a hero or whether she is just kind of a |
| 2:01.7 | partisan hack because some of the things that she said during this hearing like wanting to censor |
| 2:08.2 | political information that she doesn't like that's something that she believes that Facebook |
| 2:12.2 | should do. Obviously people on the right don't like that but at the same time she is pointing out |
| 2:18.8 | that Facebook is knowingly devastating the mental health and the safety of young children, |
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