What Keeps Facebook Up at Night
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss Elon Musk’s plan to… colonize Mars? They explain how sanctuary cities may unwittingly be sharing data with ICE through police surveillance tech. And Facebook VP Adam Mosseri, head of the news feed, joins the show for a wide-ranging interview. He explains how his team thinks about its responsibility to inform the public, and how they tackle complex problems ranging from fake news in the United States to Facebook-fueled hate campaigns in Myanmar.
Podcast production by Max Jacobs.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm April Glazer. |
| 0:11.5 | And I'm Will Oremus. |
| 0:24.9 | Hey, everyone. welcome to If Then. |
| 0:31.5 | We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. |
| 0:35.7 | We are recording this on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 13th. And on today's show, we'll talk about how sanctuary cities may unwittingly be sharing data with ICE through police surveillance tech. |
| 0:43.3 | We'll also discuss Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars and how that's going. |
| 0:48.9 | Later, we'll be joined by Adam Mosseri, the head of news feed at Facebook, to talk about how his team thinks about its |
| 0:55.6 | responsibility to inform the public and how they tackle incredibly complex problems, ranging from |
| 1:01.8 | fake news in the United States to Facebook-fueled hate campaigns in Myanmar. |
| 1:06.8 | And of course, don't close my tabs. Some favorites from the web this week. |
| 1:11.3 | So, Will, what kind of caught your eye this week as you've been following the news? |
| 1:16.3 | Well, this week has seen the annual tech and media conference in Austin, known as South by Southwest. |
| 1:23.1 | One of the big speakers this year, a surprise appearance by Elon Musk, the visionary |
| 1:29.4 | entrepreneur slash inventor slash huckster, depending on whom you ask, who is trying to help |
| 1:37.1 | the human race colonize Mars. |
| 1:39.4 | He gave an update on those lofty plans. |
| 1:42.3 | He said the goal is to put a cargo mission on Mars by 2022, |
| 1:46.4 | but he could be ready to send test rockets to Mars as soon as next year, 2019. |
| 1:52.6 | There was a caveat there. He said, there's a good chance you will die if you try to go on |
| 1:58.3 | those missions. So good to know. Also, good to know they're making progress on |
| 2:02.4 | what sounds like just an insanely ambitious goal. Right. So colonizing Mars. Do you think this is |
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