Facebook News gets bigger
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Should publishers welcome or fear the tech giant’s plan to expand its news feature. Plus how some women have received unwelcome advances in a game of Scrabble. And why Britain’s Second World War codebreaking centre Bletchley Park, one of the most important sites in computing history and now a museum, faces a funding crisis. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporter Zoe Kleinman. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: Stock photo of a man riding on public transport holding up and looking closely at his smartphone, Credit: Nico De Pasquale Photography/ Getty Images).
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| 0:55.3 | I'm Rory Kathleen Jones, and this week, Facebook wants to pay news organizations for stories and give them a bigger platform. |
| 1:02.9 | So, what's the catch? Why women playing an online word game are sick of men who seem to think they're on a dating app. |
| 1:10.5 | And as a financial crisis |
| 1:12.0 | hits Bletchley Park, wartime code breaking centre and one of the birthplaces of modern computing, |
| 1:18.4 | we speak to the woman whose social media campaign helped save it last time. |
| 1:23.7 | Joining me this week is BBC technology reporter Zoe Kleinman. Hi Zoe, how should week be? |
| 1:28.9 | Hey, Rory. Well, I've been chasing romance scammers this week, so if I'm honest, I'm feeling a little bit jaded. |
| 1:34.8 | Oh dear. Well, we'll seem for to stop to that. We're going to have a fun program. Here's a flavour of what's coming up. |
| 1:41.3 | Almost every second person that invited me turned out to be some guy who |
| 1:46.7 | apparently lives in America and has got a very interesting life, but first he wants to know about me. |
| 1:52.3 | There's thousands and thousands of people around the world that really care about Bletchley Park. |
| 1:56.6 | And so I think now's the time if they haven't done already to really think hard about how to engage people with Bletchley Park and its story and its history without them having to visit the site. |
| 2:09.8 | All of that in a moment. |
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