Turn Around: Facebook Updates, Teachers Strike, Bird Alerts

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🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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It’s October 23rd. Today, we Skimm’d This: Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has been in the news a lot recently, and today he was in the hot seat on Capitol Hill. He faced tough questions about political accounts, political ads and the company’s jump into finance. We’ll break down how Zuckerberg and Facebook are trying to stay on the right side of lawmakers and US officials. Meanwhile, Chicago’s teachers are on strike for the fifth-consecutive school day. We’ll explain what’s behind their fight for better pay, more support staff, and smaller classes. Also on today’s show: rethinking Brexit’s scary-soon deadline, and how one bird is flying high again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, October 23rd.
0:03.1	Welcome to Schimbus.
0:04.4	We're breaking down the most complex stories of the day and giving you the context on
0:08.1	why they matter.
0:09.7	Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was in the hot sea today on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers
0:13.6	had a laundry list of things to talk to him about.
0:16.5	Then, thousands of teachers in Chicago are on stride.
0:19.6	Still, we'll tell you what that stake for both teachers and kids.
0:26.6	And finally, meet your new favorite bird.
0:29.1	Back from the brink of extinction.
0:31.0	We're here to make your evening smarter.
0:33.0	Let's skim this.
0:39.2	Today's episode is brought to you by The Croix Sparkling Water.
0:45.6	The most complicated story today is about Facebook.
0:48.2	They've been in the headlines a lot recently.
0:51.4	CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has been making the media rounds, trying to show how
0:55.8	Facebook has ramped up efforts to prevent election interference.
0:59.6	And this morning, he made his way to Capitol Hill for the first time in over a year.
1:04.2	So today we're going to get into what Facebook says it's doing to tackle potential meddling
1:08.5	ahead of the 2020 election, how people are responding to some of its new policies, and
1:13.4	what today's big hearing was all about.
1:15.7	Let's get into it, starting with some new announcements Facebook has been making this
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