twitter is collapsing. and nothing can replace it. he s also the author of zucked, weighing up to the facebook catastrophe. roger, always so good to see you. are we witnessing the demise of twitter in real time? katie, we are witnessing the demise of the twitter that we have come to know and love. twitter for years was the go-to platform for politicians, for celebrities because it provided unmediated access to hundreds of thousands of people. it became the go-to place for journalists because it allows journalists to find out what stories other journalists thought was important and it provided the illusion of direct access to vips they couldoy never get near. that thing worked really well, but the business model of advertising allowed for the promotion of harmful speech. as a consequence, the old
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we re back with roger mcnamee, author of zucked. and also the reporter who covers online misinformation. brandy, we were talking about the massive investigation into facebook. and one of the headlines is that facebook knows instagram is toxic for teen girls company documents show. they knew it, they didn t do anything about it, question, why didn t they do anything about it and are they going to do anything about it now, now that they have been shamed and exposed in this way? yeah, the thing about facebook being bad for teenage girls and their mental health and body image, this is not new information. we ve known this for a long, long time. there has been outside research that told us there. and facebook has done some
problem. leaders in both parties are saying that companies like amazon, google s parent company alphabet, facebook, apple, have too much power. abusing influence. and this week the house judiciary committee began hearings on the topic. it looks like the justice department and the ftc are gearing up for their own investigations with the urging from 43 state attorney generals, all asking the fed to take some kind of action on the tech titans over pry isn t acompetition what does it mean? is good for us, bad for us? we re discussing it with tech investor roger mcnam ee the author of zucked. weighing up to the facebook catastrophe. of a all the issues come up i have a whole list. you got market manipulation, privacy concerns, filter bubbles, addiction issues, radicalization online, free speech versus hate speech and more and more, what is the biggest concern that you have