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Today, we get into that huge New York Times story

behind the scenes of Facebook. Google adds business messaging to Google Maps

Uber Eats is a monster business. Amazon Go has a rival, and there's a new king of YouTube.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Well, there's obviously only one story anyone's talking about right now. If you haven't

read it, about an hour before the podcast dropped yesterday, the New York Times dropped a long bombshell of a piece about

the behind-the-scenes machinations at Facebook over the last three years as it's

reeled from the crises that we've been talking about so often.

Apparently the piece itself was a year in the making came from interviews with more than 50 people and it is long but it is super worth reading.

In almost a year now of covering bombshell text stories I've never seen one

chattered about this much. I really really want you to read the piece but if you

don't here are the TLDR juicy bits. Facebook's C. C.

Who you might know has a D.C. background from her time in the Clinton administration

reportedly oversaw the creation of a D.C. lobbying effort that included the hiring of a Washington-based consulting firm

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