Mon. 10/21 - Review-A-Palooza

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4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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It’s review-a-palooza day with Surface reviews and Pixel 4 reviews. Also, Facebook announces new disinformation initiatives, and Microsoft announces a Secured-core PC initiative and Twitch wants in on the Watch Party action. Sponsors: Mealime Capterra.com/ride Links: Facebook disables Russian, Iranian networks, illustrating continued 2020 election threat (Washington Post) Helping to Protect the 2020 US Elections (Facebook Newsroom) Microsoft announces Secured-core PCs to counter firmware attacks (VentureBeat) Twitch’s new Watch Parties test taps Prime Video for movie night (SlashGear) MICROSOFT SURFACE PRO 7 REVIEW: I WISH THIS LOOKED LIKE A SURFACE PRO X (The Verge) MICROSOFT SURFACE LAPTOP 3 15-INCH REVIEW: IT’S A BIGGER SURFACE LAPTOP (The Verge) Google Pixel 4 XL review: A night vision camera that's dead by sunset (Android Central) GOOGLE PIXEL 4 AND 4 XL REVIEW: MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS SENSORS (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, October 21st, 2019.
0:08.0	I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:10.0	It's Review a Palusa Day with Surface Reviews and Pixel 4 reviews.
0:14.8	Also, Facebook announces a new disinformation initiative.
0:18.6	Microsoft announces a secured Core PC initiative,
0:22.1	and Twitch wants in on the watch party action.
0:25.2	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:31.4	Facebook today announced some major new initiatives to combat questionable
0:36.1	content, especially around elections and other political events. First, Facebook
0:41.6	is now requiring some page owners to disclose the organizations running those pages
0:48.0	and if they are tied to state-owned media, quoting the Washington Post.
0:52.0	We have a responsibility to stop abuse and election in Iraq. owned media, quoting the Washington Post.
0:52.6	We have a responsibility to stop abuse and election interference on our platform,
0:56.2	the company said in a blog post.
0:58.0	But the suite of policy and product fixes is unlikely to end the growing dispute over
1:02.2	Facebook's handling of political ads,
1:03.7	particularly from President Trump that contain falsehoods.
1:07.3	Facebook's decision against fact-checking or blocking those ads, which Mark Zuckerberg,
1:11.4	the company's chief executive,
1:12.6	defended in an interview with the Washington Post last week,
1:15.3	has drawn sharp rebukes from Democratic presidential
1:17.8	candidates who have accused Facebook of profiting from lies, end quote.
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