Mark Zuckerberg and his Two-Facebook
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Mark Zuckerberg has picked up the baton from Elon Musk as this week’s most depressing social media titan. His announcement to kick out fact-checking and let the community police itself is a significant moment in the rules (or lack of) governing how most of the world gets its news and opinions. The Matts discuss the potential damage, why this has happened now, and what a if anything - can citizens and governments do to resist the erosion of factual information in our times. Enjoy!
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| 1:12.7 | It's been a hell of a week in the world of social media and tech, hasn't it? |
| 1:17.7 | It has. |
| 1:18.4 | And it shows that really siloing the world of tech is no longer possible. |
| 1:23.4 | The world of tech is now the world. |
| 1:25.2 | And it intrudes on politics in a very big way um and the start |
| 1:31.0 | this week um after Elon Musk being very much um leading the the kind of charge it was mark |
| 1:37.9 | Zuckerberg yeah founder and CEO of meta yeah who uh announced what can only be described as a sort of screeching U-turn in policy on |
| 1:47.5 | Tuesday. |
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