TWiG 616: Leave It to Beaver - Disinformation, Memes, Twitter's anti-abuse tools, TikTok at VidCon

Can Disinformation Be Stopped?
Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden
Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps
Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects
Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody
Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android
Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience
Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome
Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV
YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle
You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto
New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation
Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds
Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July
The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee
Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means
Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions
Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews
TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube

Picks:

Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine
Ant - Lupin on Netflix
Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday
Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott
Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
Joan - Meme War Weekly

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Joan Donovan

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