Mark Zuckerberg is doing all he can to get an audience with the big man at Mar-a-Lago, including praising Trump’s (faux) free speech bona fides and restructuring Meta to eliminate fact-checking. Maybe it’s because Zuck wants to show his middle finger to the mean tech reporters—or maybe it’s because Trump threatened to imprison Zuck. Plus, the conspiracies around Jan 6 v 9/11, and the potential threat to our financial system from crypto. Charlie Warzel joins Tim Miller.
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Charlie’s piece on internet brain rot
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/01/january-6-justification-machine/681215/?gift=AO0MhSsTDaHgiP_RxFGfB4AesQu5uFm3b7bC2kqcx9k&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Charlie’s piece on crypto and the potential nightmare in Trump 2.0
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/12/cryptos-legacy-finally-clear/680956/?gift=AO0MhSsTDaHgiP_RxFGfB-IYesXtV2TiaaStBpAYiEw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
0:00 Meta’s content policy
18:41 Joel Kaplan on Fox & Friends
26:30 SelectQuote Life Insurance
28:08 Politics on Meta feeds
34:00 Internet justification machine
46:50 Soul Out of Office gummies
49:00 Crypto’s cultural purpose
56:37 Big banks & crypto regulation
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