How Facebook Ruined Everything (with Kara Swisher)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

Lemonada Media

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Andy calls up Kara Swisher, whom Newsweek once called Silicon Valley's "most powerful tech journalist," to discuss the myriad issues surrounding companies like Facebook, Twitter, and even Donald Trump's new social media platform Truth Social. They get into the Facebook Papers, if government regulation is coming, and where she sees Big Tech heading in the near future. Plus, Andy tells a story he's never told before about interactions with Facebook while he was in the White House.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode:

Learn more about Pfizer’s COVID-19 oral antiviral pill: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/11/05/pfizer-covid-pill/
Read an interview with Kara on the Facebook Papers: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/kara-swisher-on-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-papers.html
Read Kara’s columns in The New York Times, including many about Facebook: https://www.nytimes.com/column/kara-swisher
Learn more about Truth Social and SPACs: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-truth-social-platform-could-make-millions-or-go-ncna1282853
Check out Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari: https://www.ynharari.com/book/sapiens-2/
Find a COVID-19 vaccine site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/
Order Andy’s book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165

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0:27.0	Lemonada.
0:52.0	Welcome to the bubble. This is your host Andy Flavitt.
0:56.0	Let's start with some pandemic news.
0:59.0	Last week, we saw the results of the antiviral that is being tested from Pfizer.
1:07.0	And it showed really extraordinary results. This is a pill you take within five days,
1:13.0	once more than one pill. It's a handful of pills you take for a few days, beginning within five days of diagnosis.
1:18.0	And the results were that in the placebo group, I think 16 people died who didn't take the pill and nobody died who took the pill.
1:28.0	And hospitalizations were greatly reduced.
1:31.0	And so it's called a protease inhibitor. It basically stops the virus from multiplying.
1:35.0	And if it really works the way it looks like it may work, it really will change the whole course of the disease.
1:42.0	I mean, it could make COVID eventually soon something that is just not lethal.
1:48.0	Really interesting, really important.
1:50.0	It brings me to the next thing I want to talk to you about, I want to talk to you about the show in the bubble show.
1:58.0	I know you're probably like on a treadmill or something.
2:01.0	Just get to the interview.
2:03.0	But as I think about what the promise of the show is and what we should be doing if anything ongoing,
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