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I've been a long time reader of Ineldash's work, he's a technologist and writer and now a podcaster with a great new podcast called Function.

I was really happy to sit down and talk to him about Facebook primarily, but social media, how the web has changed, how we might sort of rescue what has lost in the era of the big corporate conglomerates.

I think if you spend time online, you are going to find this to be a really interesting and important conversation.

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew Glacias. My guest today, Ineldash, is CEO of Glitch and the host of the podcast Function.

I'm really glad to have him on the show. Like me, an old time blogger, we've never actually met, but I've been sort of internet acquaintances as long as people have been interneting.

So welcome.

Thank you so much for having me.

I thought we were going to talk about, you know, Mark Zuckerberg has been in the news a lot, transcending the boundaries between technology and politics, talking about, I guess, now really speaking.

That's a very charitable description, transcending boundaries. That's what I think of.

Yeah. Well, he put a camera in my living room, transcending boundaries.

Well, I mean, a lot of things happen on Facebook, but one thing that happens on Facebook is political advertising.

Absolutely.

And they came up with this policy that said they were going to exempt, I guess, candidate ads from any kind of rules about accuracy, which got him a lot of criticism and then provoked a big sort of media push.

He did his speech about free speech and op-eds.

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