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This Week in Startups

Rapid Fire News: Facebook “cleans up their house,” Tyga takes on OnlyFans, Jack Ma vs. CCP | E1270

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this news episode Jason covers Facebook finally revealing their Q1 transparency report after they originally shelved the report for PR purposes (2:08), Tyga deleting his OnlyFans account and announcing he will launch a competing platform (23:59), the WSJ's coverage of where Jack Ma is now (36:19) & more!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, everybody. It's an awesome news show for you today. I am well-rested. I got a lot of energy

0:05.2

and I got a lot to say about today's news story. My last day in Italy, a 21-day Italy vacation,

0:13.4

the longest vacation of my life. I had to work the last week, but I have been writing every day.

0:18.0

The new book is coming out better than I ever could have imagined. I got well over 9,000 words done.

0:24.6

I've got the chapter list to work on when I get back. I was cranking 1,000, 2,000 words a day,

0:30.8

typically a nonfiction book, a 60,000 word. So, you know, I'm getting there, folks. Okay,

0:35.5

in today's news, Facebook was caught cleaning up their algorithm reports from Q1 and Q2.

0:40.2

The rapper Taiga deleted his only fans account, which was printing money and he's starting his own

0:45.8

platform. Also, we received a DM from a sex worker who listed the Friday show and the only fan

0:50.8

segment. So, I'm going to respond to their comments and the Wall Street Journal released an

0:55.4

article detailing more about Jack Ma's whereabouts and his big fight with the dictators and authoritarians

1:03.1

in the Chinese Communist Party. Okay, let's get to the show.

1:07.9

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2:04.5

using offer code twist. Okay, on Saturday night, Facebook acknowledged that an anti-vax post

2:12.6

was the most popular post on the platform in Q1 of 2021. That's right. Facebook is spreading

2:19.4

anti-vax news on their platform at scale. And it's worth digging into this because it is a very

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