Facebook's privacy pivot and the streaming wars

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Breaking down Mark Zuckerberg’s letter on Facebook about its privacy-focused future. The Verge's Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Julia Alexander, Casey Newton, and Paul Miller discuss Facebooks new pivot to privacy, the next move for HBO after the AT&T restructure, and YouTube's bad actors. Stories from this episode: The president just called the CEO of Apple ‘Tim Apple’Read Mark Zuckerberg's letter on Facebook's privacy-focused future …Mark Zuckerberg promises a newer, more private Facebook Facebook knows Facebook isn't the futureFacebook's pivot to privacy has huge implications — if it's realThe messy details behind Facebook’s messaging plansHBO CEO Richard Plepler is leaving the company amid AT&T …AT&T's new HBO chief criticizes Netflix, says it 'doesn't have a brand …AT&T just made its first huge changes to HBO and the rest of …Game of Thrones' final season trailer prepares us for the biggest fight …Disney is ending its vault program, giving Disney+ a huge boost in the streaming warsHow baseball’s tech team built the future of televisionDying social robot Jibo goes out with a song and a danceYouTube is demonetizing all videos about Momo YouTube's family vloggers worry about future amid comments …YouTube terminates more than 400 channels following controversy …YouTube is 'aggressively approaching' solution to child exploitation ...voxmedia.com/podsurvey Thanks to Microsoft Azure for sponsoring this episode. Get started with a free account and 12 months of popular free services at Azure.com/trial today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on the Vergecast, Casey Newton joins us to talk about everything that's going
0:03.3	on Facebook, including a weird switch to privacy.
0:05.9	Julia Alexander comes on to talk about the streaming wars and a little bit of YouTube.
0:10.0	Plus Paul does this thing.
0:11.2	This on the Vergecast.
0:13.1	Sabotage hired Goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:16.8	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:22.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:26.7	Watch the Verge's documentary, Lisa's final act now on YouTube.
0:37.9	Hello and welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Vox Media, the whole thing.
0:43.6	Ooh.
0:44.2	I feel like we gotta go bold.
0:45.0	We're about to get a South by Southwest.
0:46.6	We're about to see all of the other Vox Media podcasts and we gotta put a plant to flag,
0:50.8	the whole thing.
0:51.5	If you're in Austin this weekend, I believe our podcast is on Sundays,
0:55.3	I correct.
0:55.8	It is on Sunday.
0:56.8	It's on Sunday.
0:57.7	I want to see a line around the block.
0:59.2	So please come.
1:00.2	Yeah, that'll be fun.
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