4.8 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Mark Zuckerberg says privacy is a thing of the past. MeWe founder Mark Weinstein sees a better way. In this episode, you'll learn how social media platforms track, monitor and spy on their users. It's called surveillance capitalism — and Kim and Mark will tell you how to fight back.
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0:00.0 | When Frances Howgan blew the whistle, everything changed. |
0:06.2 | The former Facebook product manager was so repulsed by the company's morals. |
0:11.0 | She said she had to leave. |
0:12.5 | But she took with her a ton of confidential private company documents. |
0:17.2 | She leaked them to the Wall Street Journal, and soon all the world could see went on behind closed doors at Facebook. |
0:23.4 | It was shocking. You've probably heard about the most explosive revelations, like Instagram knows it hurts teen girls' body image. |
0:31.8 | Facebook knows about the social harm that goes on from bullying to human trafficking. |
0:36.7 | Princess Hauken said she shared the documents because |
0:39.0 | she wants Facebook to be better. Facebook already knows how much it hurts its users. By exposing its |
0:44.9 | lack of action, Francis has hoped that Facebook will finally fix all of its problems. Now, Mark Weinstein |
0:51.1 | isn't so sure. He also went to the Wall Street Journal to talk about Facebook, |
0:55.7 | but unlike Francis Howgan, Mark didn't have any documents to share. Instead, he had a pretty |
1:01.6 | strong argument. Facebook is an advertising and marketing company just masquerading as a social media |
1:07.7 | platform. And Mark should know, Mark is the CEO of Miwi. It's an ad-free platform |
1:13.1 | that is competing directly with Facebook. He says that Facebook is a monopoly that gets rid of |
1:19.1 | competition and that he has the stories to prove it. He even introduced me to a term, I've never really |
1:25.1 | seen or heard much before. It's surveillance capitalism. |
1:29.3 | It's the greatest socioeconomic experiment in human history, Mark says. Everything we do is monetized |
1:35.0 | from morning to night. He says we need a resolution to reclaim our privacy. And he's right. |
1:40.5 | Facebook is a textbook of surveillance capitalism rung them up. |
1:46.2 | And in this episode of Kim Commander explains, |
1:48.6 | now, even if you don't have a Facebook account, |
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