Joshua and Valerie discuss the recent outages of Facebook and its various platforms, comments from Elizabeth Warren on breaking up tech monopolies, and why we might want to think twice about what’s happening with our data online.
Shownotes
- Business Insider – Facebook and Instagram are finally recovering from one of the worst outages in their history
- Goodbye Big Five – Reporter Kashmir Hill spent six weeks blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple
- Ars Technica – Elizabeth Warren proposes breaking up Amazon, Google, and Facebook
- NPR’s Planet Money – Antitrust 3: Big Tech
- Stratechery – Where Warren’s Wrong, Amazon’s Price Parity Provision, The Amazon Marketplace Question
- Exponent – a podcast about tech and society hosted by Ben Thompson and James Allworth
- Consent of the Networked, by Rebecca MacKinnon
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, by Shoshana Zuboff
- YouTube – Privacy on iPhone, an ad from Apple
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