Facebook's Political Reckoning
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 5 April 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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As Facebook faces rising scrutiny about Facebook's handling of users' private information, Mark Zuckerberg struggles to contain the damage. Next week, he'll be questioned before a congressional committee. Andrew Marantz joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how Facebook and other social media companies are responding to unprecedented political pressures from Washington and their own customers.
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| 1:12.1 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. |
| 1:17.8 | It's Thursday, April 5th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:23.1 | For the past year, Facebook has been under extraordinary scrutiny and it's only been getting |
| 1:27.7 | more intense. |
| 1:29.6 | Yesterday, the company admitted that its loose privacy policies enabled Cambridge Analytica |
| 1:35.0 | to acquire the personal data of as many as 87 million users. |
| 1:39.6 | The site also faces an ongoing backlash for its role in the 2016 election, when Russian trolls planted |
| 1:46.6 | propaganda on the site in an effort to get Trump elected. |
| 1:51.3 | Public outrage here and abroad has caused the company's stock price to plummet. |
| 1:55.8 | In an attempt to control the damage, Facebook's normally reclusive CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has been talking widely to the |
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