Facebook’s privacy pivot and the streaming wars

Breaking down Mark Zuckerberg’s letter on Facebook about its privacy-focused future. The Verge‘s Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn,  Julia Alexander, Casey Newton, and Paul Miller discuss Facebooks new pivot to privacy, the next move for HBO after the AT&T restructure, and YouTube’s bad actors. 

Stories from this episode: The president just called the CEO of Apple ‘Tim Apple’Read Mark Zuckerberg’s letter on Facebook’s privacy-focused future …Mark Zuckerberg promises a newer, more private Facebook Facebook knows Facebook isn’t the futureFacebook’s pivot to privacy has huge implications — if it’s realThe messy details behind Facebook’s messaging plansHBO CEO Richard Plepler is leaving the company amid AT&T …AT&T’s new HBO chief criticizes Netflix, says it ‘doesn’t have a brand …AT&T just made its first huge changes to HBO and the rest of …Game of Thrones’ final season trailer prepares us for the biggest fight …Disney is ending its vault program, giving Disney+ a huge boost in the streaming warsHow baseball’s tech team built the future of televisionDying social robot Jibo goes out with a song and a danceYouTube is demonetizing all videos about Momo YouTube’s family vloggers worry about future amid comments …YouTube terminates more than 400 channels following controversy …YouTube is ‘aggressively approaching’ solution to child exploitation …voxmedia.com/podsurvey

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