Facebook has disputed whether the characterization is correct, and they've taken issue with whether wall street journal has over hyped things. Facebook actually released a couple of the slide decks related to tean mental health that we wrote about, and they annotated them with just somelike, pretty harsh criticism of their own people. I am hoping that this will have had a big enough impact on the world that they the fortitude and the motivation to actually go put those regulations into place. Whether it's illegal or not, maybe our laws aren't ready for it right now, but that's just kind of a sign that, you know, we got to get to work rather than that.
Facebook kicked off the week with an outage and followed that up today with a whistleblower testifying before Congress. The Wall Street Journal’s Jeff Horwitz explains how the company may have misled the public about the dangers of its social networks.
Today’s show was produced by Will Reid, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and edited and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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