Land of the Giants: Facebook gets a facelift

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're sharing the first episode of Land of the Giants: The Facebook/ Meta Disruption. Long before Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook Meta and made an unprecedented pivot into the metaverse, he invented a feature that turned Facebook into a social network behemoth. The News Feed, which put your friends’ status updates onto your homepage, changed the way we interact online. It was a strong statement of Zuckerberg’s values: that connecting, and sharing, at scale would be de-facto good for the world. It was also his first public controversy. Follow Land of the Giants to get new episodes every Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:17.6	Hello and welcome to decoder.
0:24.8	I'm Neil Appetel, editor in chief of the Verge and decoder is my show about big ideas
0:29.1	and other problems.
0:30.1	Today we're sharing a special episode of Land of the Giants.
0:33.8	A Vox media podcast that explores how the biggest tech companies rose to power and what
0:37.9	they're doing with that power.
0:40.3	This season called the Facebook Meta Disruption is a collaboration between the Verge and
0:45.1	Recode.
0:46.1	It's hosted by our very own Alex Heath, the Verge deputy editor who broke the story of Facebook
0:51.1	changing his name to Meta, along with Recode senior reporter Sharon Nefar.
0:55.5	We've shared Land of the Giants with you on this feed before, but if you haven't heard
0:58.4	it, past seasons of the show have covered Amazon, Google and Apple.
1:02.7	This season they're diving into Facebook now Meta, the company that defines social connection,
1:07.3	community and identity on the web.
1:09.4	They're going to explore how Meta impacts our lives on and off the internet.
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