Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio.

Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm your host Jonathan Strickland. I'm an

executive producer with I Heart Radio and I love all things Tech. Over the last

couple of years I've covered a lot of stories that were either directly about Facebook

or they related back to the social media platform in some way.

From Cambridge Analytica, you know, that whole

scandal, there are a couple of episodes about that, to calls from the US

government to break up some big tech companies. That's back in the news as I record this

Facebook has had a lot of coverage it has been front and center particularly over the last couple of years.

There are a lot of good arguments that suggest people would be better off if they were not on Facebook.

If they weren't using it, didn't have an account there,

and there is plenty of evidence that shows that

misinformation campaigns and extremist groups are leveraging Facebook's algorithms to get

widespread coverage and momentum.

That they are using the social networking site

for malicious purposes.

And because the site ends up benefiting from this

through the whole advertising realm.

They have been largely complicit or at least they haven't cracked down on it as much as

they, a lot of people feel they should have,

until fairly recently.

Now, all that being said, I gotta be up front with you guys.

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