Land of the Giants: The Facebook Election

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News Commentary, News, Technology, Tech News

4.3 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Today, we're sharing a special episode from Land of the Giants: The Facebook/ Meta Disruption. To listen to the full series from episode one, Follow Land of the Giants to get new episodes every Wednesday. https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/land-of-the-giants Facebook used to brag about how its tools helped politicians swing elections. Now, the platform’s relationship to politics is much more complicated. Today: the story of how one politician, again and again, forced Zuckerberg to confront his own role in democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.3	Slack, where the future works.
0:45.1	Hi everyone, I'm Karris Wisschur and today we're excited to share a special episode of Land
0:48.8	of the Giants from our friends over at Recode and the Verge.
0:52.1	This season the Facebook meta disruption is hosted by Recode Senior Correspondent Shoring
0:56.4	Gaffari and the Verge Deputy Editor, Alex Heath.
1:00.2	Land of the Giants is a podcast that explores how the biggest tech companies rose to power
1:03.6	and what they're doing with that power.
1:05.8	Past seasons have covered Amazon, Google and Apple, but this season they're covering Facebook,
1:10.2	also known as meta, the company that defined social connection, community and identity on
1:14.5	the web.
1:15.5	In this episode you're about to hear the host's explorer Facebook's effect on American elections.
1:20.2	Facebook used to brag how its tools help politicians swing elections, but one politician
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