Wed. 09/05 - Another Congressional Apology Tour

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🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Tech CEOs hauled before Congress again, Theranos is no more, Google mulls big changes to URL’s and maybe the whole the-teens-are-abandoning-Facebook is a real thing after all? Links:Video of the Hearings (The US Senate)Facebook and Twitter testified before Congress. Conservative conspiracy theorists lurked behind them. (The Washington Post)Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve (WSJ)HOW GOOGLE CHROME SPENT A DECADE MAKING THE WEB MORE SECURE (Wired)GOOGLE WANTS TO KILL THE URL (Wired)Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook (PEW Research)Instagram is building a standalone app for shopping (The Verge)Snap launches new styles of Spectacles that look more like traditional sunglasses (The Verge)Vimeo pivots business from media to tech (Axios)Vimeo launches stock video marketplace starting at $79 per clip (Venture Beat) 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 Wednesday, September 5th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.0	Today, tech CEOs are hauled before Congress once again.
0:13.7	Theranos is no more.
0:15.8	Google Mall's big changes to URLs.
0:18.8	And maybe the whole, the teens are abandoning Facebook thing is a real thing after all here's what you
0:25.5	miss today and the world of tech.
0:27.5	Today Facebook CEO Cheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey,
0:35.0	both testified before Congress about issues,
0:38.0	including Russian interference in U.S. elections, censorship,
0:41.0	and in the case of Twitter hate speech and harassment.
0:45.0	Notably absent from the hearings today was Google.
0:48.0	The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence invited CEO Larry Page to testify but Google counteroffered
0:54.1	that they'd send Senior Vice President Kent Walker instead. The Senate
0:59.1	Committee declined and so in a bit of a sub-tweet the Senate set up an empty seat with a sign in front of it reading
1:06.6	Google.
1:08.1	It remained unoccupied throughout the hearings.
1:11.3	But back to the executives who did show up. The key driver for today's hearings
1:15.8	was senators trying to get a handle on how social media companies manage their
1:20.0	platforms after the Cambridge Analytica scandal and revelations that bots and troll farms manipulated public
1:26.3	opinion about political matters, Congress is looking at whether and how to regulate social
1:31.4	media.
1:32.4	Discussing Russian election interference,
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