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 (stratechery.com/2013/friction)

• The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went Wrong? — New York Times (nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-se…)

• Ben Thompson: Child Sexual Abuse Material Online, The Problem With Community, Towards More Friction — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2019/child-sexual-abuse-materi…)

• Casey Newton: Read The Full Transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s Leaked Internal Facebook Meetings — The Verge (theverge.com/2019/10/1/20892354/mark-zuckerber…)

• Ben Thompson: Facebook’s All-Hands Leak, Facebook Versus Warren, Zuckerberg’s Culture

— Stratechery (stratechery.com/2019/facebooks-all-hands-leak-…)

• Attorney General Bill Barr Will Ask Zuckerberg To Halt Plans For End-To-End Encryption Across Facebook’s Apps — BuzzFeed News (buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/bill-barr-fac…)

• Ben Thompson: Facebook’s Privacy Cake — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2019/facebooks-privacy-cake)

• Ben Thompson: Beachheads and Obstacles — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2019/beachheads-and-obstacles)

• Ben Thompson: The Curse of Culture — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2016/the-curse-of-culture)

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson (twitter.com/benthompson), Stratechery (stratechery.com)

• James Allworth, @jamesallworth (twitter.com/jamesallworth), Harvard Business Review (hbr.org/search?term=James+Allworth&sort=po…)

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