Mark Zuckerberg on Trial: Facebook is Damaging Society

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🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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According to his critics, Mark Zuckerberg presides over a company which is undermining our basic freedoms. But should we give him the benefit of the doubt as he seeks to rebuild the world’s trust in Facebook? Defending Zuckerberg we had Dex Torricke-Barton, Zuckerberg's former speechwriter, alongside Ed Vaizey MP. They were up against the tech commentator Nina Schick and Damian Collins MP, the head of the UK Parliament's Digital Select Committee. The debate was chaired by Helen Lewis of the Atlantic. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.2	Hello and is damaging society. Daniel who was arguing for and against the motion?
1:14.0	So arguing on the pro-Facebook side we had Dex Torric Barton who was actually Mark
1:19.3	Zuckerberg's speechwriter, the man himself and he was alongside Ed Vezi, the politician, conservative
1:25.9	MP.
1:26.9	They were up against Nina Schick, the tech commentator, and Damien Collins, who's head of the
1:31.6	Tech Select Committee here in the UK, and has been in
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