X Used to Mark My Spot – DTNS 4571
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The first four papers from US 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study, setup to see if social media was the root cause of extreme political polarization, has been published. We examine what they found out? We discuss Mark Hill’s Wired article focusing on the social media trend of including strangers in our posts without permission. And we talk to Gene X Hwang about the experience of X taking over his X handle.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Gene X Hwang, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.
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| 0:00.0 | This 10th year of Daily Tech News Show is made possible by you, the listeners. |
| 0:04.4 | Thanks to every single one of you, including Reed Fishler, Larry Bailey, Michelle Serju, |
| 0:10.0 | and Lewis Butler. |
| 0:11.8 | On this episode of DTS, GeneX Huang tells us what it's like to have your Twitter handle |
| 0:16.0 | taken away by Twitter, aka X. Plus, be careful showing strangers in your public posts, |
| 0:21.6 | and why we're all wrong about the effect of social media on politics. |
| 0:28.9 | This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, July 28th, 2023, in Los Angeles on Tom Merritt. |
| 0:34.6 | And from Studio Sonoma, I'm Sarah Lane. |
| 0:37.4 | Drung the top tech stories, and Cleveland, I'm Lennon Peralta, and I'm the show's producer, |
| 0:43.0 | Roger Cheng. |
| 0:44.0 | And joining us co-founder and photographer at Orange Photography, GeneX Huang, thank you |
| 0:48.8 | for joining us. |
| 0:49.8 | Yeah, it's my pleasure, this is my first time on the show. |
| 0:53.3 | Yes, it's good to have you. |
| 0:55.1 | We were put in touch by Mutual Pinball Connection, Ron Richards, host of Android Faithful. |
| 1:01.2 | So I appreciate him for putting us in touch as well. |
| 1:05.2 | Yep, I actually knew Sarah from before as well, so. |
| 1:08.1 | That's right, I'd say a mention that you're a good person. |
| 1:10.8 | Yeah, Gene and I, we were kind of part of that well, early Web 2 wave and SF on Crosspads |
| 1:19.9 | many times. |
| 1:20.9 | Indeed. |
| 1:21.9 | All right, well, let us start with the quick hits. |
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