Facebook's vice-president for northern Europe, Steve Hatch, joins the show to discuss the social media giant's role in both helping the UK ease out of lockdown, and prepare for life after it. We talk about how the company's adapted to the global pandemic, including ramping up its efforts to tackle disinformation using lessons learned from the 2016 US election. 

He also tells us about how Facebook expects more than 50% if its staff to be working from home for the forseeable future, and what that means for remote offices. And he explains what happened in Australia, where the platform temporarily blocked news from being viewed or shared by its users in a row over new media laws.  

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