Thu. 05/09 - Chris Hughes Wants To Break Up Facebook

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🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says it’s time to break up Facebook, more developer details from I/O, Uber has an arbitration problem, shoe tech is real, and get ready for 64 megapixel smartphone cameras. Sponsors: Wix.com/podcast Metalab.co Links: It’s Time to Break Up Facebook (Chris Hughes/NYTimes) Google is testing Mini-apps in Search and Google Assistant (VentureBeat) Google to allow users to pay for Android apps using cash (TechCrunch) Uber’s Arbitration Addiction Could Be Death by 60,000 Cuts (Bloomberg) Sick of Getting Returned Sneakers, Nike Tries a New Sizing App (Bloomberg) The story of the Brannock Device World’s fastest supercomputer will be built by AMD and Cray for US government (The Verge) 64-megapixel phone cameras are coming (The Verge) Fortnite is free, but kids are getting bullied into spending money (Polygon) Subscribe to the ad-free premium feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday, May 9th, 2019.
0:07.0	I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says it's time to break up Facebook.
0:12.0	More developer details from I.
0:14.0	Uber has an arbitration problem. Shoe Tech is real and get ready for 64
0:20.0	megapixel smartphone cameras. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:24.0	So in what Kerris Swisher this morning called a well orchestrated rollout,
0:31.0	Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes today penned a
0:34.6	bombshell op-ed in the New York Times as well as granting interviews on NPR all with
0:40.3	one message. According to Hughes Facebook needs to be broken up.
0:46.0	Hughes, of course, was one of the kids in that Harvard dorm room,
0:50.4	where Facebook was founded. He was basically a key driver in Facebook's earliest products and de facto Facebook spokesperson for the early years of the company.
1:00.0	He has not been with Facebook since 2007, but to say he is a true blue Facebook
1:05.7	OG would be putting it mildly.
1:08.1	Let me just quote from the op-ed itself.
1:11.0	Mark's influence is staggering. Far beyond that of anyone else in the private sector or in government.
1:16.0	He controls three core communications platforms, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp that billions of people use every day.
1:23.0	Facebook's board works more like an advisory committee than an overseer
1:27.0	because Mark controls around 60% of the voting shares.
1:30.0	Mark alone can decide how to configure Facebook's algorithms to determine what people see in their news feeds,
1:36.0	what privacy settings they can use, and even which messages get delivered.
1:40.0	He sets the rules for how to distinguish violent and incendiary speech from the merely offensive
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