TNW 342: California To Limit Smartphones in Schools - Butterflies Network, Influencers, One Medical

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🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Amanda Silberling of TechCrunch joins Mikah Sargent this week! California is seeking to crack down on smartphone usage in schools. A new social media network has been launched where AI and humans coexist on the platform. Social media influencers are barely getting by. And patient safety issues have increased at Amazon's One Medical primary care service since Amazon acquired the service and shifted care to call center contractors.

Mikah Sargent shares his story of the week about how California Governor Gavin Newson is seeking to restrict the usage of smartphones at its schools during the day.
Amanda Silberling talks about a new social media network from a former Snap engineer called Butterflies, where humans and AI coexist on the network and can interact with one another.
Mikah talks about how social media influencers are barely getting by through sponsorship deals and ad revenue payouts from social networks like YouTube or TikTok.
And finally, Caroline O'Donovan from The Washinton Post talks about patient safety issues at Amazon's One Medical service following Amazon's acquisition of the primary care service and shifting support to a call center staffed primarily by contractors.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Amanda Silberling

Guest: Caroline O'Donovan

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0:00.0	Coming up on Tech News Weekly, my story of the week is up first. It's about California's governor
0:06.4	Gavin Newsom saying it's time to limit the use of smartphones in schools.
0:11.9	Amanda Silverling of Tech Brunch is here this week and her story is about an interesting
0:16.7	social media network called Butterflies, where humans and artificially created characters interact and post on a social media network.
0:30.0	Really weird.
0:31.0	Then another story of the week, this time it's about how those influencers or as the Wall
0:37.7	Street Journal calls them, the creator earners, are earning less money for their creations.
0:44.8	Before we round things out with the Washington Post's own Caroline O'Donovan,
0:49.4	who joins us to talk about an important story,
0:52.4	Amazon's One Medical has some issues when it comes to
0:57.0	patient safety of its elder patients. All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. Stay tuned.
1:07.0	Podcasts you love from people you trust.
1:12.0	This is Twit.
1:17.0	This is Tech News Weekly with Amanda Silberling and me Micah Sergeant, episode 342, recorded Thursday, June 20, 2024, California to limit
1:28.3	smartphones in schools.
1:30.3	Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, show wherever week we talk to and about the people
1:36.4	making and break at the Tech News. I am your host Micah Sergeant and this week as I promised you things are a little bit
1:44.8	weird this month but don't worry they'll be back to normal soon but in the
1:49.3	meantime we get to celebrate because Amanda Silverling of Tech Crunch is here to join us for this
1:54.8	very episode of Tech News Weekly. Welcome back from all the places you went, Amanda.
2:01.6	Hello, I am definitely bringing the weird vibes as well.
2:06.0	I am in the podcast dungeon, which is the unattractive yet sound-proofed little room in my apartment and been off work for two
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