What Mark Zuckerberg Didn’t Share

Slate News

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.5 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Will Congress let Mark Zuckerberg get away with under-sharing? On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus break down the Facebook chief’s trip to Washington to testify before Congress on the Cambridge Analytica scandal. They review the most amusing and revealing moments from his 10-hour testimony.

The hosts also analyze Zuckerberg’s evasion strategy and discuss whether members of Congress were buying it. And they look ahead to what regulation might be brewing that could affect Facebook and other Internet companies. Finally, Don’t Close My Tabs: their picks for the best stories and Twitter threads on the Web this week.

Don't Close My Tabs

Bloomberg: Tesla Workers Claim Racial Bias and Abuse at Electric Car Factory
Twitter: @Max_Fisher
Podcast production by Max Jacobs.

If Then plugs:
You can get updates about what’s coming up next by following us on Twitter @ifthenpod. You can follow Will @WillOremus and April @Aprilaser. If you have a question or comment, you can email us at ifthen@slate.com.
If Then is presented by Slate and Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, New America, and Slate. Future Tense explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy, and culture. To read more, follow us on Twitter and sign up for our weekly newsletter.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future.
0:09.8	I'm April Glazer. And I'm Will Oremis.
0:16.0	Hey, everyone. welcome to If Then.
0:22.0	We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America.
0:28.0	We are recording this on the morning of Thursday, April 12th, and this is our second show this week.
0:33.6	We will be discussing our key takeaways from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's two days and about
0:39.1	10 hours of questioning from the House and Senate. What did we learn? What didn't we learn? And what
0:44.5	does it mean for the future of Facebook and online advertising? We'll talk about some of the positives,
0:49.2	negatives, and what's left to decipher. And we'll end our show with a Facebook free, Zuckerberg free edition of Don't Close My Tabs. Okay. So, Will, quite a long week, but we're not done yet. How's it going? It's going our right. You know, I've got a cold. I'm pretty exhausted. I know you've been pulling all-nighters covering the Zuckerberg testimony. How about you? Yeah, it's been good. I'm sorry to hear that you've got a
1:13.0	cold, great timing on that. But it has been a real pivotal moment for our beats because, you know,
1:19.6	Facebook is one of the most powerful companies in the world. And we're not just talking about
1:22.9	Facebook when we're talking about the future of regulatory action against this company. We're talking
1:27.0	about the future of regulating the whole industry, which has been unregulated for so long, or relatively
1:32.0	unregulated, I should say, for so long. So a lot to talk about this week. Glad we're doing two shows.
1:38.5	Mark Zuckerberg sat through two hearings, which lasted something like 10 hours in total, right? I mean, it was pretty brutal,
1:45.4	wasn't it well? It wasn't. We watched all 10 hours, I think, both of us.
1:49.3	Yeah, I took some breaks, to be honest, but I kind of had to. You did not take breaks. You took
1:53.7	breaks to file like 10 stories. Oh, gosh. No, you too. It was only breaking to write, but then
1:59.8	getting right back on it. He was invited to talk about what happened in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica mess, where we learned last month that the political consulting firm that did the social media targeting for the Trump and the cruise campaigns, as well as the leave side of the Brexit issue in the UK.
2:16.3	They built their voter models with data from profiles of up to
2:20.5	87 million Facebook users, right? And so Cambridge Analytica was kind of the political voter
2:25.7	targeting firm that worked for these campaigns. They used Facebook data. That data was wrongfully
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.