“You Have to Be Heard”
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus take a look at Vero, the new social network that has people fleeing Instagram and Facebook, how conspiracy theories after the Parkland massacre have bubbled to the top of YouTube’s search results, and the controversy over how Facebook charges for campaign ads, after a Wired report showed that Trump faced much lower rates than Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn joins the show to talk about net neutrality, the upcoming Sinclair merger, sky-high prison phone rates and what the FCC is doing to help restore communications post Hurricane Maria.
Don’t Close My Tabs:
Wired: How Trump Conquered Facebook - Without Russian Ads Uber Driver’s Playlists
Podcast production by Max Jacobs.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm Will Oremus. |
| 0:11.7 | And I'm April Glazer. |
| 0:25.3 | Hey everyone, welcome to If Then. We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. We're recording this on the afternoon of |
| 0:30.1 | Tuesday, February 27th. On today's show, we'll talk about Vero. Vero? Vero? The new social network that has people fleeing Instagram and Facebook. |
| 0:41.1 | We'll look at how the NRA runs its own gun-loving media machine, and how conspiracy theories after the Parkland massacre have bubbled to the top of YouTube's search results. |
| 0:52.0 | We'll also discuss a controversy over how Facebook charges for campaign ads. |
| 0:56.7 | There was a report in Wired suggesting that Trump may have faced much lower ad rates on Facebook than Hillary Clinton did in the 2016 presidential election. |
| 1:05.1 | Later, we'll be joined by FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. We'll talk about net neutrality, the upcoming Sinclair merger, |
| 1:11.7 | which, if it goes through, we'll make Sinclair the largest broadcaster in the country |
| 1:15.9 | and will mean the conservative-leaning network will reach 72% of American homes. We also |
| 1:21.5 | discuss prison phone rates and what the FCC is doing to help restore communications post-Hurricane |
| 1:26.2 | Maria. Oh my God, we have so much to talk about today. Last but not least, we'll have Don't Close My Tabs, our picks for the best on the web this week. Okay, Will, how are you doing this week? I'm doing well, thanks. April, can you remember the last time we had a slow news week in tech? No, I don't think that there are slow news weeks very often. |
| 1:50.4 | And definitely when there's never a slow news week, there's never a slow news week in tech because everything touches technology in some way. |
| 1:51.2 | So no. |
| 1:52.2 | Do you? |
| 1:52.9 | All right. |
| 1:53.7 | Fair form. |
| 1:56.8 | No, maybe like over the holidays or something, but that's about it. It's just been, it feels like it's been a crazy time in the tech world and particularly the stuff that we talk about, which is how tech affects our democracy and society. |
| 2:05.2 | Honestly, if there's a slow news week, we're probably not doing our jobs. |
| 2:09.7 | If there's no news, we'll make some news. |
| 2:12.3 | Yeah, well, that's our job. |
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