Move Fast And Fix Things

The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

'Move fast and break things' was Facebook's corporate philosophy in its early days. Europe now wants to do the opposite when it comes to the harmful effects of social media: move fast and fix things. This week we're taking a look at the EU's plan to rein in the tech giants with the help of one of our favourite European tech nerds, Guillermo Beltrà of the Open Society European Policy Institute. We've also got a special Outer Space edition of Good Week Bad Week. This podcast was produced in collaboration with the Open Society European Policy Institute. You can find out more about their work here and check out an episode we previously made with them about Europe's climate policy here. This week's Isolation Inspiration: The Unlikely Murderer (Den osannolika mördaren) and Tear Along the Dotted Line (Strappare lungo i bordi). This episode was produced as part of Sphera, a collective of independent European media. Find out more at sphera-hub.com. Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us keep making it, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few euros / dollars / pounds a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast. You can also help new listeners find the show by leaving us a review. Producers: Katy Lee and Wojciech Oleksiak Senior producer: Katz Laszlo Music: Jim Barne and Mariska Martina This podcast is part of the Are We Europe family. Find more like-minded European podcasts at areweeurope.com/audio-family. Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | [email protected]

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0:00.0	This podcast is a part of Sphira.
0:01.8	A collective of independent media outlets from across Europe.
0:05.7	For more information, visit Svira-hub.com. Hello from the continent of discontent.
0:34.8	It doesn't feel like Europe is a very happy place this week, although
0:37.8	we will do our best to cheer people up a little bit. Dominic, I see people have been selling
0:42.3	fire to bicycles over there in the Netherlands. That doesn't seem great.
0:45.3	Yeah, and learning off fireworks at police officers and police officers shooting back. It's been
0:50.4	pretty bad.
0:51.4	It's grim. For once, France is not the place that is, like, rioting the hardest, which I'm grateful.
0:56.8	Not that it's a competition.
0:59.8	Everything's a competition with you, Katie.
1:01.9	Anyway, it's generally grim out there.
1:03.7	And for those of you listening from Austria, we are thinking of you, especially this week.
1:07.1	I can't believe you guys are under lockdown again.
1:09.6	Hope everyone's doing okay. Let's just
1:11.5	try in general to make some progress with the whole vaccination boostery thing. Yeah?
1:16.5	Okay. It'd be nice if they gave it to us here in the Netherlands. Anyway, we're not
1:20.8	meant to be talking about this. This is a podcast where we don't talk about the pandemic.
1:24.5	Yeah, sorry. What are we talking about this week?
1:26.7	Well, this week we're going
1:27.6	to be talking about Facebook. You remember that, like, social media tech giant that we all used
1:33.6	to be a member of. Actually, I am still a member of it. I'm pretending to be cool like I left it. I
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