Mon. 10/25 – Everybody Dumps (Reports) On Facebook

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🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Running down the headlines from all of those Facebook stories that we were promised would land this week. PayPal backs away from Pinterest, Tesla rolls back Full Self Driving, Microsoft keeps its eye on the ransomware gangs and a listener gives us an explainer on why Worldcoin wants to scan your eyeball. Sponsors: Betterhelp.com/ridehome enterprise.spectrum.com/techmeme Links: Here are all the Facebook Papers stories (Protocol) The case against Mark Zuckerberg: Insiders say Facebook’s CEO chose growth over safety (Washington Post) PayPal Says It’s Currently Not Pursuing Pinterest Deal (Bloomberg) Tesla pulled its latest ‘Full Self Driving’ beta after testers complained about false crash warnings and other bugs (The Verge) Hertz orders 100,000 Teslas in deal reportedly worth $4.2 billion (The Verge) Microsoft: Russian SVR hacked at least 14 IT supply chain firms since May (BleepingComputer) Privacy by Design (WorldCoin) How the Launch Works (Worldcoin) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home from Monday, October 25th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Running down the headlines from all those Facebook stories that we were promised
0:13.2	would land this week.
0:15.2	PayPal backs away from Pinterest.
0:17.5	Tesla rolls back full self-driving.
0:20.1	Microsoft keeps its eye on the ransomware gangs and a listener
0:24.0	on why World Coin wants to scan your eyeballs.
0:27.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:32.0	So today is Facebook earnings day. Thus today is the day that all of the
0:37.8	Facebook Papers stories were supposed to drop this morning. Some of it dropped
0:42.4	on Friday night because certain
0:43.7	outlets got itchy fingers I guess. But among the newsrooms who were working in
0:49.5	this consortium to drop the news this week were and this is from Axios. The Associated Press,
0:57.0	Reuters, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, NBC News, CBS News, USA Today, Financial Times, The Atlantic, Fox Business, NPR,
1:07.0	Bloomberg, Politico, Wired, Casey Newton's platformer newsletter, Le Monde, and German newspaper, hold on,
1:15.0	Sudan Deutsch Zeitung, in addition to a few other European outlets.
1:21.0	So look, as these stories have been rolling in this morning there's so many of them
1:25.4	there's no way I can cover everything in the very first link in the show
1:29.0	notes you'll find an evolving list of every story thus far published but let me run down some of the stories
1:35.5	as of this morning. Internal documents show Facebook had no clear
1:40.1	playbook for handling the dangerous content delegitimizing the U.S.
1:44.2	elections ahead of the January 6 riots. Internal documents show how Facebook
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