Will Biden go after Facebook?
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Facebook faces more criticism for its handling of misinformation around the US election, this time by members of Joe Biden's team. Could the next US president lead a crackdown on the social media giant? We speak to Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy. Also on the show: Apple launches a range of new laptops, but it's the chips inside them that are causing a stir. We ask Raspberry Pi creator Eben Upton if it's the end of the road for endlessly faster processors. Plus Hyperloop makes some headlines with a high-speed test in the desert, but is it really going to revolutionise transport systems around the world? Railway engineer and writer Gareth Dennis has his say. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones with BBC tech reporter Zoe Kleinman.
(Photo: Cutouts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg outside the US Capitol, Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:41.7 | No. sounds. There's probably another podcast on there that you're absolutely love. Hello and welcome to TechTent, your weekly guide to all the hottest news and trends in |
| 0:46.2 | the technology business. I'm Rory Gatlin Jones and this week, Facebook is under fire from |
| 0:51.8 | President-elect Biden's team as it struggles to deal with a wave |
| 0:55.9 | of disinformation about the US election. We hear from one critic who doubts the social media giant |
| 1:02.1 | is fixable. Apple unveils what it describes as a revolutionary computer chip powering new Macs, |
| 1:09.4 | but is Moore's law running out of steam? And as the Hyperloop |
| 1:14.3 | takes its first passengers on a short trip, will it ever add up as a futuristic transport system? |
| 1:21.3 | Joining me this week is BBC technology reporter Zoe Clyman. Hi Zoe, what's kept you busy this week? |
| 1:27.0 | Two things, Rory, the future of transport and how to keep a certain important vaccine very, very cold. |
| 1:33.4 | Let's just say, I'm so relieved that this sort of thing isn't up to me. |
| 1:37.5 | More on the transport system later. Here's a flavour of what's coming up. |
| 1:42.2 | Yes. Yes. It's still a straight line, so it doesn't go around curves yet. It's coming up. Yes. |
| 1:46.9 | It's still a straight line, so it doesn't go around curves yet. |
| 1:48.7 | It's pretty primitive stuff. |
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