This is the Mother Jones Podcast. I'm Jamila King in New York. On today's show, breaking up Facebook.

The answer really is to break it up.

It's just way too big.

Can it really be done?

And what does that even look like?

A new call for Mark Zuckerberg to step down as Facebook's chairman.

What Facebook is and isn't doing to battle disinformation in the era of and I don't

even want to use these words, fake news.

It's designed to bring out the worst in us over and over again.

I mean, it's practically destroyed journalism.

Also on the show, how the media blew it again in the midterm elections.

Did anyone learn anything from the 2016 presidential campaign?

The media as a whole was reacting way too much to Donald Trump and they always do

Having Donald Trump be the sort of de facto assignment editor

Two of the biggest and best minds in the media business are in the studio for you today.

Washington Post Media columnist Margaret Sullivan and Vox Media Critic Carlos Maza.

That's all coming up. Stick around. Meeting Margaret Sullivan for a journalist like me is, well, a bit daunting. She's basically the biggest rock star in the media criticism world and so inviting her into our own studio is nerve-wracking

for sure. Likewise, Carlos Masa from Vox who publishes regular blistering videos on how the media is failing you big time in

the era of Trump and creeping authoritarianism, he's a strident critic of the ways journalists are playing directly into Trump's hands.

You have to check out his videos.

When we were thinking about episodes of the Mother Jones podcast we could give you to help you understand 2018 and prepare you for 2019.

We thought, let's put these big brains together in the same room because they both say really interesting things about what the media is doing right

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