Instagram, Facebook and this Meta episode
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🗓️ 29 October 2021
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Summary
Instagram’s CEO steps into the limelight in an unexpected public interview. And, after a firestorm, Facebook’s big attempt to pivot.
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In an impromptu interview on Twitter Spaces, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri said he still believes building an app for children is “the right thing to do.” The company had paused development of Instagram Kids last month over concerns about privacy, screen time and the mental health of young people.
But Instagram is just one piece in the puzzle that is Facebook — now rebranded as Meta. Tech reporter Will Oremus discusses the fallout from the Facebook Papers and the company’s latest attempt to move on.
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| 0:00.0 | We set up a Twitter spaces. |
| 0:03.7 | Hey, everyone, thank you so much for joining. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Chris Wallace with six Washington Post reporters |
| 0:08.7 | who have been part of covering the many revelations |
| 0:12.1 | coming out about Facebook and Instagram |
| 0:14.6 | from the whistleblower leaks. |
| 0:16.3 | That's Willa Remes, a tech reporter for the post. |
| 0:19.3 | And he was part of that Twitter space. |
| 0:21.8 | A Twitter space is like a live online chat room, |
| 0:25.1 | but you can actually hear people's voices. |
| 0:27.7 | So on Twitter spaces, you can see the abatars |
| 0:30.6 | of all the people who are listening. |
| 0:33.0 | And I just noticed that Adam Miserie was one of the people |
| 0:36.0 | who was in the room. |
| 0:36.8 | He's the CEO of Instagram. |
| 0:38.6 | And so I was like, hmm, I bet he's like having an awkward time |
| 0:44.6 | listening to us talk about some of these seemingly |
| 0:47.8 | damning revelations about his company. |
| 0:50.2 | Facebook very, very deeply researched and knew |
| 0:54.2 | about major harms that were being caused by that platform. |
| 0:58.4 | How much the plan was? |
| 0:59.2 | And so I thought, what if we invited Adam to come up? |
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