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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about the fallout from what happened yesterday

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Speaker 2: with Facebook. Seventeen million Australian Facebook users were blocked from

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Speaker 2: sharing or posting. Well, they're calling it news content, but

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Speaker 2: so many pages came down that had nothing to do

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Speaker 2: with news. Facebook's core service doesn't rely on news articles.

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Speaker 2: The company estimates only about four percent of posts on

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Speaker 2: the network or works of journalism. But so many things

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Speaker 2: came down the algorithm. This is what was alarming the algorithm,

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Speaker 2: which shows you how skew if Facebook's algorithm is that

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Speaker 2: government pages came down, as we say, week before a

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Speaker 2: vaccine is about to be unveiled and we need emergency information.

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Speaker 2: Really terrible timing. Nonprofit groups all that came down, Charities

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Speaker 2: all that, Jimmy and Jane Barnes, all their great work disappeared.

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Speaker 1: How our great work disappeared? All the stuff that we do. Curiously,

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Speaker 1: Kyle and Jackie as one didn't go.

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Speaker 2: No news content. I know. I guess drinking your own

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Speaker 2: breast milk isn't news anymore. Excuse me, I'm just going

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Speaker 2: to turn over now. I want to hear more. Bureau

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Speaker 2: of Meteorology down and as people were saying, in other

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Speaker 2: parts of Australia there are floods, there are fires, and

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Speaker 2: when the Bureau of Meteorology goes down on Facebook, that's

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Speaker 2: a big deal. And for people to go, oh, you know,

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Speaker 2: only fools get their news from Facebook. A lot of people.

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Speaker 1: I tend to be one of those people that says

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Speaker 1: that there's many things. There's like a newspaper that you

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Speaker 1: can read, and you can go online and look at

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Speaker 1: other news.

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Speaker 2: You know, But for a lot of people just how

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Speaker 2: But my point also is it's not just news that

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Speaker 2: came down yesterday. And some of these things may be amended,

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Speaker 2: but a lot of people are so pissed off with

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Speaker 2: Facebook they're going that's the end of it.

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Speaker 1: So they made you swear.

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Speaker 2: Amah, I've come out with the swears now. Mark Humphrey

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Speaker 2: is from the ABC ironically posted a video yesterday not

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Speaker 2: to Facebook, but I thought it was brilliant. Ha Listen.

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Speaker 1: For more than fifteen years, Facebook has been bringing you

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Speaker 1: the news that matters, like whose birthday you're going to

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Speaker 1: ignore today? Now, with our Facebook only news network, we

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Speaker 1: have some of the most extremeist citizen journalists in the

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Speaker 1: world reporting from basements across the country get the news

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Speaker 1: that our algorithm says matters to you. From faces you

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Speaker 1: sometimes scroll past. I'm your ill informed aunt, I'm your

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Speaker 1: cousin who's not all there. I'm that bloke you used

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Speaker 1: to work with. You can't be bothered to one friend.

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Speaker 1: And I'm someone whose friend request you accepted out of politeness.

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Speaker 1: Let's have a chat about this scandemic. Shall we delivering

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Speaker 1: all the news to keep you informed politics. There's an

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Speaker 1: absolutely mind blowing story out today about Hillary Clinton from

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Speaker 1: a news website called the Onion Weather. According to the

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Speaker 1: Bureau of Meteorology, it was the hottest November on record.

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Speaker 1: According to my pop there was Hoder in nineteen fifty two. Yep,

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Speaker 1: it was a hot one and insightful analysis plus data

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Speaker 1: driven commercials that are actually relevant to you. Facebook News

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Speaker 1: Network is brought to you by whatever brand name or

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Speaker 1: product you just set out loud to a friend.

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Speaker 2: How did we hear it and show you an ad

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Speaker 2: about it?

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Speaker 1: Because we care about you. From Pete Evans to COVID nineteen,

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Speaker 1: from COVID nineteen to five G, from five G to.

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Speaker 2: A global pedo conspiracy involving Hollywood elites and a pizza

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Speaker 2: restaurant for some.

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Speaker 1: Reason, Let the Facebook algorithm radicalize you. So what are

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Speaker 1: you waiting for? Join the conversation, and by conversation I

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Speaker 1: mean caps lock and death threads the Facebook news network.

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Speaker 1: When news breaks on Facebook, you'd better believe it's broken.

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Speaker 2: Use gold, isn't it?

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Speaker 1: Gold?

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Speaker 2: Citizen journalists? There they are, That's it.

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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's gaenation