What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Why Tech Is Bending the Knee
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🗓️ 12 January 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
How the FCC and its incoming head, Brenden Carr, could enact Trump’s top policy goal: punishing anyone who says mean stuff about Trump.
Guest: Drew FitzGerald, telecom reporter for the Wall Street Journal.
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| 0:49.6 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:51.0 | I want to talk about something important today because it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram. |
| 1:01.1 | It has been a bit of a week on the internet. |
| 1:06.0 | You might have noticed that Mark Zuckerberg, in his new MAGA-friendly incarnation, |
| 1:14.7 | announced that his companies are pulling back from content moderation. |
| 1:18.0 | They are getting out of the fact-checking business. |
| 1:22.5 | Later, in the same video, he said something very telling. |
| 1:26.2 | The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech. |
| 1:28.3 | So we're going to get back to our... |
| 1:30.3 | On Friday, news broke that META was reportedly ending its DEI programs. |
| 1:39.3 | It's not that often that a chief executive just lays it all out like that, |
| 1:47.4 | acknowledges that new people are coming to power, |
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