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🗓️ 19 October 2018

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Facebook makes a hire that makes British Twitter laugh, here’s how much Google’s going to charge for Android, Google wants China but does China want Google and the Weekend Longreads suggestions. Links: Facebook Hires Nick Clegg, Former UK Deputy Prime Minister, as Head of Global Affairs and Communications, to Succeed Elliot Schrage (Financial Times) Twitter Suspends Pro-Saudi Bots Spreading Propaganda About the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi (Gizmodo) Twitter Pulls Down Bot Network That Pushed Pro-Saudi Talking Points about Disappeared Journalist (NBC News) Powerful Executives Have Stepped Away From the Saudis. Not SoftBank's. (New York Times) Google App Suite Costs as Much as $40 Per Phone Under New EU Android Deal (The Verge) Google Wants China. Will Chinese Users Want Google? (Wired) The Betterment Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Craig Newmark, Newspaper Villain, Is Working to Save Journalism (New York Times) How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 (Vulture/New York Magazine) Drone Journalism's Battle for Airspace (Columbia Journalism Review) Mother Earth Mother Board (Wired) The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust (The New Yorker) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, October 19th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.0	Today, Facebook makes a hire that makes British Twitter laugh.
0:14.0	Here's how much Google's going to charge for Android.
0:17.0	Google wants China, but does China want Google?
0:20.0	And of course, the weekend long read suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of
0:25.8	tech. News broke this morning that Facebook has hired the right honorable Sir Nick Clegg, the former UK
0:36.0	deputy prime minister to be the new head of Facebook's global affairs and communications team.
0:41.6	The Financial Times says Sir Nick will move to California to succeed
0:44.9	Elliot Shrog, who announced last June that he would leave Facebook after 10 years
0:49.8	with the company. This news immediately did two things. First, it literally blew up UK Twitter and
0:58.0	it caused US Twitter to go, who dat? So in deference to our more politically savvy friends in the UK, I'd like to read some selected
1:07.8	tweets by people who have lived with Sir Nick's leadership. Benjamin Rame from an undisclosed U.S. location
1:15.0	tweeted, under Nick Clegg's leadership,
1:18.0	the Lib Dems lost 85% of their MPs and the brand was destroyed.
1:22.0	Here's hoping he can replicate this success at Facebook.
1:26.4	Though Michael Spicer put it in a more British way, thanks to him, his party is literally now five people and a mug of pens.
1:35.0	But sure, okay.
1:37.0	Matt Gimmel and Edinburgh tweeted,
1:39.0	this is actually a perfect match.
1:42.0	Facebook needed someone with no credibility whatsoever
1:44.8	who's used to being constantly overruled by a long-faced scruple-free opportunist who gets sweaty
1:51.0	when questioned and likes the color blue.
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