What If Facebook Used Data For Black Lives?
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about trouble at Tesla: the company has suspended production of the Model 3, the car that will make or break its business. The hosts also dig into the news about the real estate site Zillow, which is expanding its business in a surprising new way--and why its stock is tumbling.
The hosts are also joined by Yeshimabeit Milner - founder and executive director of Data for Black Lives. You might’ve seen her piece earlier this month on Medium entitled “An Open Letter to Facebook from the Data for Black Lives Movement: Give Black researchers, data scientists and Black communities access to our data.” They talk to her about what questions she has for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg following his two congressional hearings last week in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data spill and everything else the company has been grappling with over the past couple years.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm April Blazer. And I'm Will Aramis. |
| 0:10.5 | Hey everyone, welcome to If Then. |
| 0:23.7 | We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. |
| 0:29.5 | We're recording this on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 17th. |
| 0:32.9 | On today's show, we'll talk about trouble at Tesla. |
| 0:36.0 | The electric vehicle company has suspended production |
| 0:38.4 | of the Model 3, the car that will make or break its business. We'll also talk about the real |
| 0:43.4 | estate site Zillow, which is expanding its business in a surprising new way, and its investors |
| 0:48.4 | are not happy. Later, we'll be joined by Yashima Bait Milner, founder and executive director of Data for Black Lives. |
| 0:55.8 | You might have seen her piece earlier this month on Medium, entitled An Open Letter to Facebook from the Data for Black Lives movement. |
| 1:02.5 | Give black researchers, data scientists, and black communities access to our data. |
| 1:07.5 | We'll talk to her about what question she has for Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerbergberg following his two congressional hearings last week in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data breach. |
| 1:16.1 | And we'll end with Don't Close My Tabs, our picks for our favorite things we saw on the web this week. |
| 1:21.6 | All right, April, how are you doing this week? |
| 1:23.2 | I am okay. How are you doing well? |
| 1:25.7 | I'm doing well. I've been enthralled by the big new war between Tesla and the media. |
| 1:32.9 | I've noticed that Tesla is now putting out statements calling media sources, extremist organizations, |
| 1:39.9 | accusing them of being in league with union organizers. |
| 1:43.5 | They said that a damaging report about worker safety at Tesla's factories by the Center for Investigative Reporting. |
| 1:51.0 | An amazing group out here in California. |
| 1:53.2 | Yeah, they do fantastic work. |
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