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Jan 2022
47m 24s

The Sunday Debate: It's Time to Break Up...

Intelligence Squared
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Whether we call it Facebook or the recently coined Meta, the Silicon Valley tech giant founded by Mark Zuckerberg has rarely been out of the headlines since its inception over a decade ago and rarely have those headlines been good news. From Cambridge Analytica to the United States Capitol attack, the company's utopian ideals of connecting up society seem to ... Show More
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