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Casey Newn, you cover social networks and how they're fudzing about with our democracy for the verge.

Is Facebook okay?

Um, Facebook has been in two years of what I like to call Permacrisis.

It's kind of been lurching from one major problem to the next.

Russia.

Cambridge Analytica hate speech.

2016 election.

And uh, it seems to have stepped in it yet again.

And so can you help us sort of unwrap this, this giant knot the company seems to be in right now?

This is like the post Cambridge Analytica scandal.

So it all starts in January 2018.

Good evening.

And a very cold year welcome to the 40 eggs and all reading of the world economy fall.

That's during the world economic forum in Davos when all of the fancy people go to talk about the future of the world.

And at Davos this year, George Soros, the wealthy financier philanthropist, stands up on a stage and he says...

The internet monopolies have neither the will nor the inclination to protect society against the consequences of their actions.

That turns them into a manace.

Facebook and Google are a menace to society.

This lands like a bombshell inside of Facebook.

They had not previously known that George Soros thought they were a menace.

A few days after the conference, Cheryl Sandberg, who's the chief operating officer of Facebook, sends an email to her team.

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