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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Conservatives Descend on Facebook Headquarters

Hosted by Madeleine Brand May. 19, 2016

Facebook invited a group of conservatives to their headquarters in Menlo Park after the web site Gizmodo claimed they were suppressing conservative news. Meanwhile, Google seems to have invited the rest of the world to the Googleplex for their developer conference. We’ll talk about that and more web news in our weekly chat with Xeni Jardin.

Credits

Guest:
Xeni Jardin - BoingBoing.net - @xeni

Host:
Madeleine Brand

Producers:
Matt Holzman, Anna Scott, Jolie Myers, Christian Bordal, Laura Swisher, Sarah Sweeney

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