GeekNights 20211004 - Social Media - a podcast by Rym and Scott - The Front Row Crew

Tonight on GeekNights, we consider theLeopardthat 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 onoutages), Facebook has awhistleblowerrevealingterrible revelationsabout the harm Facebook causes, a new tool can revealwho actually owns companies, and Europe is looking to (rightly)standardize on USB-Cfor charging electronic devices (much to Apple's discomfort).

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