Mon. 12/17 - Actually, It's Instagram That's The Problem?

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🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Facebook got all the press but the Russians really loved Instagram to spread misinformation, more tech real estate moves, the CEO of HQ Trivia passes away, and how to break into somebody’s phone with a 3D-printed head.Sponsors:Techmeme.Robinhood.comMetalab.coLinks:Instagram Was Bigger Russian Election Tool Than Facebook, Senate Report Says (Bloomberg)Google Details Major New York Expansion (WSJ)Colin Kroll, 34, HQ Trivia and Vine Co-Founder, Is Found Dead (NYTimes)We Broke Into A Bunch Of Android Phones With A 3D-Printed Head (Forbes)Robinhood Will Retool Checking Product Following Scrutiny (Bloomberg)Apple hires designer Andrew Kim away from Tesla (The Verge)My Talk at Google (Me) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, December 17th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:10.0	Facebook might have gotten all the press, but the Russians really loved Instagram to spread
0:13.8	misinformation.
0:15.6	More tech real estate moves, the CEO of HQ trivia passes away, and how to break into
0:21.8	somebody's phone with a 3D printed head.
0:25.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:28.0	A report prepared for the US Senate has leaked out. The report is analyzing the Russian
0:38.0	disinformation campaign around the 2016 election and it looked at millions of posts on YouTube
0:43.8	Instagram Tumblr Pinterest not just on Facebook
0:48.0	Which I'm sure you expected to be the primary focus but actually and this is what I found interesting in the report,
0:55.6	apparently Instagram turned out to be the biggest disinformation channel the Russians used, dwarfing all other social networks including Facebook in terms of the number of posts and engagements with the posts.
1:10.0	So perhaps we've been focusing on the wrong platform.
1:14.0	Quoting from Bloomberg.
1:16.0	Instagram was a significant front in the IRA's influence operation,
1:20.0	something that Facebook executives appear to have avoided mentioning in congressional testimony.
1:25.0	The report says,
1:26.0	IRA activities shifted there after the media began to write about Russian activity on Twitter and Facebook.
1:31.0	Our assessment is that Instagram is likely to be a key battleground on an ongoing basis."
1:38.0	There were 187 million interactions with Instagram content compared with 77
1:45.3	million on Facebook and 73 million on Twitter according to a data set of
1:49.9	posts between 2015 and 2018 analyzed by new knowledge Columbia University and
1:55.1	Canfield Research end quote. So the IRA that they're talking about in the
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