The Facebook Dilemma Part Two

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4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The promise of Facebook was to create a more open and connected world. But from the company’s failure to protect millions of users’ data, to the proliferation of “fake news” and disinformation, mounting crises have raised the question: Is Facebook more harmful than helpful? This major, two-night event investigates a series of warnings to Facebook as the company grew from Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room to a global empire. With dozens of original interviews and rare footage, The Facebook Dilemma examines the powerful social media platform’s impact on privacy and democracy in the U.S. and around the world.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the Frontline Film Audio Track.
0:04.0	A reminder that you're listening to the enhanced audio version of our television documentary,
0:09.0	The Facebook Dilemma Part 2.
0:11.0	If instead you're looking for our original podcast series,
0:15.0	search for the Frontline Dispatch in iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.0	The Frontline's investigation into Facebook continues.
0:39.0	There is absolutely no company who has had so much influence on the information that Americans consume.
0:46.0	He's the man who connected the world, but at what cost?
0:50.0	Holorization was the key to the model.
0:53.0	The Global Threat.
0:56.0	This is an information ecosystem that just turns democracy upside down.
1:01.0	The 2016 election.
1:03.0	Facebook getting over a billion political accounting.
1:05.0	And the company denials.
1:07.0	The idea that fake news on Facebook influence the election in any way I think is a pretty crazy idea.
1:13.0	The CEO Mark Zuckerberg will test it out.
1:15.0	And I'm responsible for what happens here.
1:17.0	Is Facebook ready for the midterm elections?
1:19.0	There are a lot of questions heading into this midterm.
1:21.0	The midterm elections on the good.
1:23.0	I still have questions if we're going to make sure that in 2018 and 2020 this doesn't happen again.
1:30.0	Tonight on Frontline, Part 2 of the Facebook dilemma.
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