Hey everybody, it's your friend David Pierce. The Verge cast is taking a much-needed vacation this week,

so instead of this week's episode, we are excited to share with you a trailer for the new season

of Land of the Giants. This season, the Facebook meta-disruption, is a collaboration between

Recode and the Verge. Senior reporters Shereen Gaffari of Recode and Alex Heath of the Verge

explore how meta, which you may know as Facebook, is impacting our lives on and off the internet.

Take a listen to the trailer and follow Land of the Giants wherever you find your podcasts.

New episodes are out every Wednesday, starting July 13th.

Fun fact about Mark Zuckerberg. Before he dropped out of Harvard to build his company, the Facebook,

he was the psychology major. I basically studied psychology and computer science, so all of the work

that I do is sort of at the intersection of those things. What I care about is building technology

to help people interact with each other. That was Zuckerberg in an interview earlier this year,

and it captures just how optimistic he still is about shaping the way people communicate with

each other in the digital future. Even after his company has been accused of stoking misinformation,

inciting violence and polarizing the globe, I'm Shereen Gaffari.

And I'm Alex Heath. We're hosting Land of the Giants, a podcast about the biggest tech companies

of our time. This season, meta, formerly known as Facebook. It's a company in a particularly

controversial and vulnerable moment. Zuckerberg is placing a multi-billion dollar bet towards an

imagined metaverse future. Meanwhile, the rest of us are still grappling with what he has already built.

When I think about any kind of abuse, from my perspective, the philosophy should be the companies

should try to prevent the things that they have done that make those things worse, but not try to

fix society itself. This season, we're going to talk to the executives during meta's biggest decisions.

We hope we can marry the best of letting people freely communicate, and then figuring out how to do

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