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Episode 079 — Twerk the Algorithm

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss the allegations that Facebook is censoring conservative news, and renew their ongoing debate about Facebook’s power. Then, why Google’s current situation is similar to Microsoft, even though the long-term looks good. Links Want to Know What Facebook Really Thinks of Journalists? Here’s What Happened When It Hired Some. — Gizmodo Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News — Gizmodo Nilay Patel: Let’s Say Obvious Things About Facebook and Conservative News — The Verge Ben Thompson: The Voters Decide — Stratechery Ben Thompson: The Real Problem with Facebook and the News — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Defending … Continue reading Episode 079 — Twerk the Algorithm

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0:00.0

Hi, James.

0:00.7

Ben, how are you?

0:03.2

Not very good.

0:04.3

Why not?

0:05.3

Because I'm nervous about this podcast.

0:07.2

Oh my gosh.

0:08.4

Hang on.

0:09.2

Hang on.

0:09.6

Before you start, like, getting in a little jab before we've even begun, I mean...

0:13.8

That wasn't a jab.

0:14.6

I am nervous.

0:15.7

You're like trying to put me on the back foot and we haven't even started and I and what I need to be doing is making

0:21.3

you feel guilty for flying over the Atlantic Ocean and forgetting your microphone last week.

0:26.5

Well, I didn't fly over the Atlantic Ocean because that would be a very long trip.

0:31.4

Oh my gosh. You went the other way, of course. Yes, sorry. Sorry about last week. I forgot a mic.

0:36.3

And because I was in Europe and the time zones are actually much more difficult from there anyway. I'm not sure if we could have even pulled it off. But then it was a moot point once I forgot my mic. Sorry for last week. And needless to say, feel compelled to talk about what we would have talked about last week, which is this whole Facebook brouhaha.

0:56.4

So when you said I was going to shout at you for getting your mic, what you really meant was I was going to shout at you because we're talking about Facebook.

1:04.0

So we've had an ongoing difference of opinion that I suspect is going to continue about Facebook and and

1:14.6

censorship and and and and tilting the news and and and so on and so forth.

1:20.6

So just just to quickly recap and I actually think that and I know everyone is familiar

1:26.2

at this point, but I think it's one of those things where everyone is familiar with the story to the point where they're actually missing what's actually happening in the story.

1:34.9

It's just this Facebook tells the news.

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