Facebook’s punishing week
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The social giant suffers one of its worst ever weeks after a tech blunder takes its platforms offline for hours, and a whistleblower gives highly critical testimony to Congress about its attitude to online harm. Plus, the CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance tells us why he’s convinced digital currencies are the future of finance. And why is China clamping down on cryptocurrencies? Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporter David Molloy. Produced by Jat Gill.
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
| 0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. |
| 0:21.9 | The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
| 0:28.1 | Thanks for downloading this TechTent podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:32.4 | Find out more about us at BBCworldservice.com slash techtent. |
| 0:40.3 | Hello and welcome to TechTent, your essential weekly guide to all the hottest news and |
| 0:44.9 | trends from the technology business. I'm Rory Kethlyn Jones, and this week a disastrous shutdown |
| 0:50.6 | lasting six hours, followed by damning testimony from a whistleblower to Congress. |
| 0:56.3 | We look back at Facebook's worst week. |
| 0:59.5 | Binance is one of the fastest growing cryptocurrency exchanges, but regulators around the world |
| 1:04.7 | are warning that its products are extremely risky. |
| 1:07.2 | We put those concerns to its founder. |
| 1:10.4 | And China really doesn't like cryptocurrencies. We find out why. |
| 1:15.6 | Joining me this week is BBC Technology reporter, David Malloy. How's your week been, David? |
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