Meta’s Whistleblower: We Can’t Trust Instagram with Our Teens 11/08/23

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4 • 494 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

After testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, former Facebook employee and former Instagram consultant Arturo Béjar joins Joe Kernen, Becky Quick, and Andrew Ross Sorkin to discuss his calls for teen safety tools on Meta’s platforms. Béjar shares data on the number of teens who’ve experienced unwanted sexual advances on Instagram, as well as Meta’s responses to his calls for action. Altimeter Capital founder and CEO Brad Gerstner is urging American policymakers to invest at home. The tech investor and founder considers where American financial wellbeing falls on the country’s budgetary priority list, while billions are sent to foreign allies. Plus, Meta is now requiring political advertisers to disclose use of AI in their ads, and Cava has cooked up a surprise profit this quarter. Brad Gerstner - 09:44 Arturo Béjar - 31:15 In this episode: Brad Gerstner, @altcap Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	Bring in show music please.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer, today on Squawk Pod.
0:08.0	Tech investor and three-time founder Brad Gersner, he's got the ear of Tech Giants and
0:14.1	politicos and to him it's all personal. We have 15 countries that we send over
0:19.5	four billion dollars a year to annually in foreign aid. How can we give four billion a
0:25.0	year in foreign aid to all these countries and we can't give that same
0:28.2	opportunity to every kid in America? And AI fooling you with ads. Kava's cooking up a profit and
0:35.6	voters cast their ballots a year out from the presidential election. So we're
0:39.8	back to Trump Biden because out of 340 million people those are the two.
0:44.7	Plus a conversation with Instagram engineer turned whistleblower.
0:49.2	Arturo Behar has taken to Capitol Hill and now are set to shine a light on teenagers
0:54.2	being harassed on social media. One in eight in the last seven days experienced
1:00.0	an unwanted sexual advance. 11%.
1:03.0	His proposed solution and how Meta responded.
1:05.8	I don't think we can trust Instagram or those services with our teams if they're not willing
1:10.6	to give them the tools that help them when they need it.
1:13.0	It's Wednesday, November 8th, 2023, Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:19.0	Stand back you by in three, two, one, queue please.
1:23.0	Good morning and welcome to Squawk Box right here on
1:27.0	CNBC.
1:28.0	We are live from the NASDAQ Market site in Times Square.
1:30.0	I'm Becky Quick, along with Joe K Hermann and Andrew Ross Sorkin.
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