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GeekNights 20211004 - Social Media
GeekNights
English - October 05, 2021 02:00 - 79.8 MB - ★★★★ - 58 ratingsVideo Games Leisure Technology games technology video games board games tabletop games anime manga comics geek nerd Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the Leopard that is social media. It is difficult to summarize the myriad ways that social media has materially harmed society despite its great promise. From Orkut to Facebook to Twitter, it's been a destabilizing force. In the (possibly too on-the-nose) news, Facebook had a major global outage today (see our episode on outages), Facebook has a whistleblower revealing terrible revelations about the harm Facebook causes, a new tool can reveal who actually owns companies, and Europe is looking to (rightly) standardize on USB-C for charging electronic devices (much to Apple's discomfort).