Zuckerberg Under Oath (Jake on the BBC)
I was on the BBC today talking about Zuckerberg. Here's the clip.
I spent today on CNN, CBS, MS Now, and the BBC covering Mark Zuckerberg’s historic testimony in Los Angeles — the first time he’s ever had to answer for Instagram’s impact on children in front of a jury.
Here’s my BBC segment. Watch it, and see if you find yourself wanting more.
The full breakdown — including what I couldn’t say in any of those five-minute hits — is waiting for paid subscribers at The Rip Current. It includes the internal Meta emails, the Ray-Ban glasses incident, and why Zuckerberg’s answer about “bad user experiences” is a canned response that might not work any longer.
Grateful you are watching and reporting these social media culpability issues so closely, Jacob. Wishing I didn't feel so conflicted about the subscription model. It's an understandable necessity to paywall your content. But my Substack subscription dollars are careening far out of control again as another wave of authors I admire, including you, get flung out of former journalistic homes. Do a piece on THAT problem, perhaps? What's the math on what Americans are paying to support estimable investigative reporting in this new era of dead or compromised mainstream media?
This is so juicy. Wearing their Meta glasses! Damn Daniel, that was worth the 10 bucks right there. Watch SNL parody this. Marshall McLuhan would be joyful. For once the lamestream media will no longer send its American Dream, happy ending, spending and loving is the answer, message.