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Offline with Jon Favreau

How Facebook Changes Us, Influencer Riots, and AI Gets Funny

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

According to a series of new studies published in Nature and Science, the way Facebook influences its users isn’t as straight forward as it seems. Does that mean Facebook is off the hook for polarizing America? Joshua Tucker, NYU professor and lead researcher on the 2020 Facebook Election Research Project, joins Offline to talk about what his team found, what lessons we learned about Facebook’s role in our world, and what its like to collaborate on a project with Mark Zuckerberg’s company. Plus: Max and Jon talk New York City's Twitch-fueled riot, AI learning to write (good) jokes, and the Zuck v. Musk cage match. 

 

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0:00.0

All right, the Republican debates are nearly upon us, starting on August 23rd, they'll

0:04.4

be comedy, they'll be horror, will laugh, will cry, will be terrified.

0:09.3

And that's just Ron DeSantis, but you don't have to suffer through the debates alone.

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Join our group discussion on discord as we suffer through the debates together, subscribe

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to friends of the pod today at crooked.com slash friends.

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0:47.3

Where does that cooperation come from?

0:48.8

Well, the cooperation can come from the platforms themselves deciding that they're going to

0:53.5

do it.

0:54.5

The cooperation could come because it's mandated that they do it.

0:58.0

Banks don't have the option of whether or not to run stress tests and report them to

1:02.4

the government.

1:03.4

Like our companies don't have the option of whether or not to do emissions tests, right?

1:07.8

I'm John Febrew.

1:09.0

Welcome to offline.

1:11.8

Hey everyone, I'm Max Fisher sitting in for John this week.

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