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I'm Dan Pramack. On today's show, Facebook's new plan for news and take two for what could be the world's largest ever IPO.

The first, Jay-Z's controversial football play.

So last week, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell appeared at a press conference with Jay-Z,

the rapper and business mogul who spent the better part of three years criticizing the league

for its treatment of Colin Kaepernick and of other players, who protested police violence

and racial inequities by taking pre-game

knees during the national anthem.

The purpose here wasn't for either to apologize or to settle their differences so much as

it was to go into business together, a multi-year partnership, whereby Jay-Z gets a major role

in the league's social justice program and his Rock Nation will help produce future Super Bowl

halftime shows.

There also were subsequent reports that Jay-Z will also get partial ownership in an NFL team,

but no public details on that yet.

The upshot here is that neither Goodell nor Jay-Z came out of the press conference with

the sort of positive coverage they likely expected.

Goodell looked to many like he was co-opting a critic, and Jay-Z was

widely criticized for selling out Kaepernick, who remains unemployed. Capernick, for his part,

hasn't directly commented, but he did send out some cryptic tweets that reflected his distaste

for the arrangement. So here's Jay-Z during the presser. We take it back. I think that we

forget that Collins' whole thing was to bring attention to social injustice,

correct? So in that case, right, this is a success, right? This is the next thing, right? Because

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