Episode 174 — Distracted at Facebook

Ben and James discuss Facebook from multiple angles, including child sexual abuse material, encryption, Oculus, and a leaked all-hands meeting.
 

Links

• Ben Thompson: Friction — Stratechery
• The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went Wrong? — New York Times
• Ben Thompson: Child Sexual Abuse Material Online, The Problem With Community, Towards More Friction — Stratechery
• Casey Newton: Read The Full Transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s Leaked Internal Facebook Meetings — The Verge
• Ben Thompson: Facebook’s All-Hands Leak, Facebook Versus Warren, Zuckerberg’s Culture
  — Stratechery
• Attorney General Bill Barr Will Ask Zuckerberg To Halt Plans For End-To-End Encryption Across Facebook’s Apps — BuzzFeed News
• Ben Thompson: Facebook’s Privacy Cake — Stratechery
• Ben Thompson: Beachheads and Obstacles — Stratechery
• Ben Thompson: The Curse of Culture — Stratechery

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery
• James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review

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