Will Facebook be broken up?
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
US regulators launch lawsuits accusing the giant of buying rivals to stifle competition. Plus, does Uber’s sale of its autonomous driving division indicate a roadblock for driverless tech? And why a paper by leading AI ethics researcher Dr Timnit Gebru has caused a storm at her employer Google. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC cybersecurity reporter Joe Tidy. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, October 2019. Credit: REUTERS/ Erin Scott/ File Photo).
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| 0:49.7 | States versus Facebook. Will a landmark lawsuit by US regulators really see the tech giant force to |
| 0:56.3 | sell off Instagram and WhatsApp? As Uber sells off its autonomous vehicle research division has |
| 1:03.2 | progress to self-driving cars stalled. And we find out what's behind the clash between Google and one of |
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| 1:11.6 | Timnit Gabrew. Joining me this week is BBC's cybersecurity reporter Joe Tidy. Hi, Joe. What have you |
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