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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

The Matt Hancock One

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

News, Politics

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Culture Secretary on controlling the power of the internet giants, why he wants his own personal app and how to win a horse race

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:03.4

So Nick, have you downloaded the app?

0:05.4

I have downloaded the app, yes.

0:07.4

Well, come on, let's get started.

0:09.4

Hi, I'm Matt Hencock, and welcome to my app.

0:12.0

It's a chance to find out what's going on,

0:14.6

both in my role as MP for West Suffolk and as Culture Secretary.

0:18.8

So come on, let's get started.

0:21.0

That is Matt Hencock, the app, not the human being.

0:25.2

We're going to be talking to the human Matt Hencock.

0:28.2

He is the digital culture media and sports secretary

0:32.0

in this podcast.

0:33.6

And we're going to talk to him about what he calls

0:36.2

the Wild West, the Internet, in other words.

0:42.8

Hello, the controversial political data intelligence firm

0:45.6

Cambridge Analytica has suspended its chief executive.

0:49.2

But Facebook's not exactly having a great week either.

0:52.0

It's the biggest corporate crisis since Valtz Fargon's

0:54.8

diesel deceit.

0:55.8

Now, that inorg your evidence of this week's

0:57.6

the events that involved Cambridge Analytica and Facebook

1:01.6

reminded me of a visit last year to Mark Zuckerberg's

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