Health & Science with Dr. Jha and Justin Rosenstein

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

On today's show: two dispatches from inside the medical community and Silicon valley, respectively. First we're joined by Justin Rosenstein, the man who led the team behind the Facebook like button. Now the co-founder of Asana, he breaks down the influence that social media has had on society in this critical time. Rosenstein serves as the whistleblower against Facebook on Netflix’s recent documentary hit “The Social Dilemma”. Today he talks about how social media platforms have handled the 2020 election vs. the 2016 election (3:20), why big tech companies have ignored the negative effects social media might have on society (10:23), the human price of today's economic system (17:38), and his vision for the deep structural changes ahead (30:27). Then, on the back end, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, Dr. Ashish Jha, joins us for the fourth time to update us on the latest uptick in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in the United States. Dr. Jha talks about the politicization of the pandemic (40:33), the psychological toll the pandemic is taking on healthcare workers (45:15), his thoughts on how the president has dismissed the severity of the virus (51:10) and a realistic timeline of finding a cure (54:54).

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	This is talk easy. I'm Sam Fregoso. Welcome to the show. Hey yo, yo, yo!
0:23.0	Hey!
0:24.0	Hey! Hey! Hey everyone. Thank you so much for being here. A little bit of housekeeping at the top.
0:40.0	Next week in this country, as I'm sure you know, we'll be holding a national election.
0:47.0	In case for some reason you still don't know how and where to vote be sure to visit
0:53.0	www dot vote.org that's
0:56.0	W.W. vote dot org
0:59.0	with that in mind will be off this coming Sunday
1:01.5	November 1st and will be returning this coming Sunday, November 1st,
1:03.1	and we'll be returning that following week,
1:05.4	Sunday, November 8th, with Professor Noam Chomsky.
1:09.4	But today, I'm pleased to have on Dr. Ashish Jaa and Justin
1:14.8	Rosenstein. My talk with Dr. Jaa will come on the back half of this
1:19.2	episode so to start. Justin is the co-founder of a company called Asana, a web and mobile application designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their work.
1:32.0	But earlier in his career, Justin worked at Google
1:36.3	where he was an instrumental figure in the creation of Google Drive. Once he left
1:41.6	Google he moved to Facebook where he helped co-create the like button.
1:46.4	Can you imagine your life without Google Drive and the like button on Facebook?
1:51.8	The fact that we probably can't imagine that is why I'm having
1:55.6	Justin on today. He's one of several talking heads in the new film called The
2:01.2	Social Delema. By now you've likely seen or heard of it. It's a new
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