"Facebook Gets A Facelift"

Land of the Giants

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Technology, Society & Culture, Business

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Long before Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook Meta and made an unprecedented pivot into the metaverse, he invented a feature that turned Facebook into a social network behemoth. The News Feed, which put your friends’ status updates onto your homepage, changed the way we interact online. It was a strong statement of Zuckerberg’s values: that connecting, and sharing, at scale would be de-facto good for the world. It was also his first public controversy. Hosted by Shirin Ghaffary (@shiringhaffary) and Alex Heath (@alexeheath) Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear next week's episode by hitting the plus sign in your favorite podcast app Follow @recode and @verge for more coverage of Meta and Big Tech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.8	Imagine you are on a spaceship, Iron Man level luxury, with huge glass windows opening to the
1:02.8	universe. In the center of this chamber is a poker table, and Mark Zuckerberg.
1:08.2	Hey Mark, what's going on? What's up Mark? We're floating in space.
1:13.2	Huh? Made this place. That's awesome. This was a scene from Zuckerberg's annual keynote at
1:18.1	Facebook's Connect Conference in October 2021, the company's biggest event of the year.
1:23.5	No one was actually playing poker in space. With the help of a lot of CGI, this scene was meant
1:29.6	to visually depict Zuckerberg's new obsession, the Metaverse. Zuckerberg spent the next hour detailing
1:35.8	his plans for this future, where humans could live fully immersed in a digital world. Which sounds
1:41.6	like science fiction, because it was literally an idea lifted from science fiction. If you've read
1:46.4	the book Snow Crash or Ready Player One, you get the idea. This was Zuckerberg giving the kind of
1:52.0	classic tech-optimist speech he was known for in Facebook's earlier years. But this time,
1:58.5	it felt jarring, because of the moment Facebook was actually in. I believe Facebook's products
2:03.9	harmed children, stoked division, and weakened our democracy. Earlier that month, a former Facebook
2:10.2	product manager named Frances Halgain testified on Capitol Hill. She just leaked a vast trove of
2:16.0	documents from inside the company. The papers seem to reveal that Facebook knew a lot more than it
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