December 06, 2018

204: Great Chicken Caper of 2018

1 hour 10 minutes

Facebook is back in the news after the UK Parliament releases 250 pages of documents about how the company handles data! Next, Microsoft is reportedly considering scrapping Edge and building a browser based in Chromium. Finally, a triple-dessert! She-Ra is a good show, Laura Loomer chained herself to Twitter, and the PlayStation Classic sucks.

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Links and Show Notes Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Facebook knew Android call-scraping would be ‘high-risk’ - The Verge Internal Facebook documents show how the company makes deals for data - The Verge Facebook’s Internal Tensions Are Spilling Beyond The Company’s Walls Facebook’s Internal Tensions Are Spilling Beyond The Company’s Walls Internal Documents Show Facebook Has Never Deserved Our Trust or Our Data - Motherboard Mark Zuckerberg personally approved cutting off Vine’s friend-finding feature - The Verge Microsoft is building its own Chrome browser to replace Edge - The Verge Far-right activist Laura Loomer handcuffed herself to Twitter’s NYC headquarters - The Verge She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Is the Magically Queer Cartoon We Need Right Now - them.