Roger McNamee Says Facebook Undermines Democracy

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🗓️ 5 March 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Roger McNamee was a mentor to a young Mark Zuckerberg and an early investor in Facebook, but now he warns that the social media platform has become a threat to democracy, privacy, competition, and even public health. He talks about when he noticed the first signs that not all was well at Facebook and what happened when he brought his concerns to his old friend. He discusses the role that Facebook played in the 2016 election, how its algorithms are actually designed to polarize and spread disinformation, and how Russian trolls and companies like Cambridge Analytica were able to exploit those flaws. Roger shares how Facebook employs tricks from psychology and slot machines to keep us coming back for more, and how you’re paying for the service with your personal data. Order Roger McNamee's book Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe on Amazon, Audible or wherever books are sold. Today’s podcast sponsored by Brother INKestment printers, BetterHelp, and season 2 of Breach podcast. Please support the show by taking our annual listener survey at www.podsurvey.com/kick, and register to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review, follow us on twitter at @KickassNewsPod, and visit our website at www.kickassnews.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.6	If you had told Roger McNamy even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself
1:05.6	to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy, he would have held with laughter.
1:11.1	He had mentored many tech leaders in his illustrious career as an investor, but few
1:15.7	things had made him prouder or been better for his fun's bottom line than his early service
1:21.2	to Mark Zuckerberg.
1:23.2	While a large shareholder in Facebook, he had every good reason to stay on the bright
1:27.4	side, until he simply couldn't.
1:30.6	Now he warns that the social media platform is a threat to democracy, privacy, competition,
1:36.3	and even public health in his new book titled Zucked, waking up to the Facebook catastrophe.
1:43.0	And today Roger comes on the podcast to discuss how he became an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg,
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