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episode 616: Leave It to Beaver - Disinformation, Memes, Twitter's anti-abuse tools, TikTok at VidCon
- Can Disinformation Be Stopped?
- Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden
- Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps
- Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects
- Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody
- Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android
- Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience
- Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome
- Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV
- YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle
- You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto
- New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation
- Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds
- Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July
- The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee
- Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means
- Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions
- Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews
- TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube
Picks:
- Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine
- Ant - Lupin on Netflix
- Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday
- Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott
- Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
- Joan - Meme War Weekly
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt
Guest: Joan Donovan
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