How Big Tech is combating white nationalism, vaccine myths, and other viruses
Reliable Sources
CNN
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another wild week for Big Tech and how it is shaping all of our lives. |
| 0:09.0 | Today we're going to connect the dots between all of the week's media and technology headlines. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Brian Stelter and welcome to the Reliable Sources Podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | This weekly podcast in between our Sunday Television program is a chance to go more in-depth with media |
| 0:24.9 | leaders and newsmakers talking about how the media world works and sometimes |
| 0:29.2 | doesn't work. And these days it's really all about the media's intersection with the Silicon Valley |
| 0:35.3 | Giants, the apples and the Googles, the Facebooks, and the Twiters. |
| 0:39.5 | Here to talk through all the recent headlines. |
| 0:41.5 | I may make a little bit of news is |
| 0:42.9 | Oliver Darcy and Donio Sullivan two of my colleagues here at CNN who covered this |
| 0:47.9 | world day in day out. Guys welcome back. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:51.5 | Thank you. Oliver you've been paying close attention to what |
| 0:53.7 | Facebook is or is not doing about vaccine misinformation. I thought that would be |
| 0:59.5 | an interesting place to start because a lot of the conversations we have about big tech and how they are |
| 1:05.4 | managing or mismanaging their platforms has to do with misinformation. |
| 1:08.6 | And this anti-Vax crap that's out there that spreads on social media. That's now a real area of |
| 1:16.4 | focus for government officials and for journalists who are asking why these |
| 1:20.4 | companies aren't doing more. Right and Facebook decided that they were going to do more, right? |
| 1:25.2 | On March 7th, I believe, earlier this month, |
| 1:28.0 | they had announced that they're taking all this action against vaccine |
| 1:31.3 | misinformation that was really flourishing on both Facebook and Instagram. |
| 1:36.8 | But it seems that while they put out this nice puffy press release and they got a lot of |
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