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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Facebook

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Subscribe for extended interviews at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Facebook is changing its name. The reason? They’re not just a social media platform anymore. They’re so much more! Definitely not the reason? Distract and distance from a whistleblower scandal, rampant fake news issues, and an evil reputation. No, really, it has nothing to do with those things… Activist and writer Evan Greer, director of Fight for the Future, joins the Useful Idiots to discuss The Company Soon to Be Known As The Company Formerly Known As Facebook. We delve deep into the whistleblower’s findings, how Facebook has made free speech litigious, and its most recent laundry list of crimes against humanity. Plus what whistle blower Frances Haugen gets right and what she gets wrong. We think we found a guest more “absolutist” (whatever that means) about the First Amendment than Matt is. Evan asks the question: Can we see a world without Facebook? If the answer is yes, then it’s time to abolish it. Plus, a final word on Colin Powell and Joe Manchin obstructs the Carbon Offset Consideration Kickoff. Yeah, he’s a real COCK block. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. And stand by for the Substack-only episode in which Katie and Matt discuss potato chips and Evan discusses sex workers and the internet, which drops Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, hello and welcome to what was that?

0:10.0

That's how Matt makes my mind.

0:14.0

Matt gives me neurological tests before I get there.

0:18.0

Yeah, exactly.

0:19.0

Hello, welcome to useful idiots.

0:21.0

I'm Katie Halper.

0:22.0

I'm Matt. How are you doing, Katie?

0:24.0

I'm okay, you.

0:26.0

I'm just going to say a whole bunch of Doritos before we went on the air.

0:31.0

What flavor, just regular standard Doritos.

0:33.0

They were standard, but you know, like, you know, when you eat a sufficient quantity of Doritos, you have that feeling like you want to kill it.

0:43.0

All right, so four foot groups.

0:45.0

Don't get stuck.

0:46.0

Yeah, what what happened this week, Katie?

0:49.0

I mean, we're talking about this briefly just because it's like wise tonight different from every other night to quote pass over saters, but basically we have guess who the bad guy is one of the bad guys is Adam Schiff.

1:09.0

That is so funny.

1:10.0

No, Matt outside of the Russia gate world in which you live.

1:14.0

He's he has his bad and evilness and no, he does have evilness.

1:19.0

He's a spook, right?

1:21.0

Yeah, he's an intelligence community.

1:23.0

Yeah, yeah.

1:24.0

Well, Joe Manchin is.

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