The Facebook / Meta Disruption

Land of the Giants

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Technology, Society & Culture, Business

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Land of the Giants: The Facebook/ Meta Disruption explores how the social media juggernaut has arrived at this unprecedented moment of transition. Senior reporters Shirin Ghaffary of Recode and Alex Heath of The Verge speak with top Meta executives and some of its biggest critics and ask how the company has shaped our lives, and what lies ahead. New episodes begin Wednesday, July 13th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Fun fact about Mark Zuckerberg.
0:02.5	Before he dropped out of Harvard to build his company,
0:04.7	the Facebook, he was a psychology major.
0:07.6	You know, I basically studied psychology
0:09.0	and computer science.
0:10.0	So all of the work that I do is sort of
0:12.9	at the intersection of those things.
0:14.7	What I care about is building technology
0:16.3	to help people interact with each other.
0:18.2	That was Zuckerberg in an interview earlier this year.
0:20.9	And it captures just how optimistic he still is
0:23.4	about shaping the way people communicate with each other
0:26.0	in the digital future.
0:28.1	Even after his company has been accused
0:29.9	of stoking misinformation, inciting violence,
0:32.6	and polarizing the globe, I'm Shereen Gafari.
0:36.5	And I'm Alex Heath.
0:37.8	We're hosting Land of the Giants, a podcast
0:40.2	about the biggest tech companies of our time.
0:42.7	This season, Metta, formerly known as Facebook.
0:45.9	It's a company in a particularly controversial
0:48.3	and vulnerable moment.
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