What Next TBD: Does Meta Even Care When Its Users Get Hacked?

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🗓️ 22 January 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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It can feel very personal to have your Facebook or Instagram page hacked—they’re your pictures and your friends after all. But Meta, the social media parent company, handles hacks with anything but a personal touch. Guest: Kirstin Grind, investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Host: Lizzie O’Leary If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on
0:28.9	Prime Video. Not too long ago, I got on the line with a woman I'd gone to college with. Her name's Danielle.
0:39.7	Danielle Lefefeve. I am a small animal veterinarian in the Vermont, New Hampshire area as of July when we moved up here from Washington, D.C.
0:51.0	And I'm a fellow Williams-A-love. And-eaf. And we're Instagram friends. Yeah.
0:56.8	Please forgive my scratchy voice in this interview, by the way. I had a cold. What happened to you
1:02.4	on Instagram? How did it start? It started with a message that I got from an acquaintance.
1:10.7	When we were in Washington, D.C., we were really big into
1:13.8	soccer and following D.C. United and the women's team. And I got a message from a soccer friend
1:18.8	that said something to the effect of, hey, I'm starting a clothing line. Would you be interested?
1:25.0	This friend was someone whose work, overlapped with soccer,
1:28.5	and it didn't seem that unlikely
1:30.6	that this was something he would do.
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