Our takeaway from the Big Tech CEO hearing

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Today, U.S. senators grilled the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X and other social media companies on online child safety. And while there’s lots of blame to go around, aren’t lawmakers responsible for making laws to protect kids? Get ready for a Kai rant. Plus, how the system we use to pick presidential candidates has fallen apart. And a new discovery on the power of music!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “Social Media Company CEOs Testify on Online Child Sexual Exploitation” from C-SPAN

- “The Real Reason We’re Stuck with Trump v. Biden” from Politico

- “Did a Young Democratic Activist in 1968 Pave the Way for Donald Trump?” from Politico

- “Music found to cause similar emotions and bodily sensations across cultures” from Phys.org

- “Bodily maps of musical sensations across cultures” from PNAS

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Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, let's go.
0:02.0	There we go.
0:05.0	Hey everybody, I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:10.0	Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense.
0:13.0	I'm Kyle Rizdahl late to the studio, of course.
0:15.7	Anyway, Wednesday, 31st January.
0:18.1	It's a podcast.
0:19.9	Yes, it's a podcast.
0:21.5	Today we are going to do some news and then some smiles.
0:24.6	So let's get into it.
0:25.8	Kai, you go first because you're quite newsy with it.
0:28.2	I'm newsy with it. I'm newsy and I'm irritated and I'm also a little over-caffeinated.
0:32.2	So just, you know, let that be the fair warning.
0:34.4	Oh I had coffee today. Did you? Oh wow and you know that's unusual so I'm I probably beat you on being over-caffeinated.
0:43.0	You may well.
0:44.5	Except I've just had my fifth cup of the morning.
0:46.5	Of course, I've been up now for like 8 and a half hours.
0:49.3	Anyway, whatever.
0:50.5	It's not about me.
0:52.0	So social media companies including Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and
0:56.7	Lindy Akarino at Twitter and the CEO of Tik-Tock whose name I can't remember
1:02.1	right now.
	...

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