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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Facebook: A year in scandal

    A New York Times investigation shows that Facebook gave companies like Netflix and Spotify way more access to user data than it ever disclosed. The latest bout of bad PR for Facebook prompted #DeleteFacebook to start trending -- again.

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    KCRW placeholderBy Barbara Bogaev • Dec 20, 2018 • 1 min read

    A New York Times investigation shows that Facebook gave companies like Netflix and Spotify way more access to user data than it ever disclosed. The latest bout of bad PR for Facebook prompted #DeleteFacebook to start trending -- again. We run through the scandals Facebook has faced this year. And talk to a former Press Play producer about what it was like when he tried deactivating his Facebook account.

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    Why it’s so hard to leave Facebook
    1. 0:00Facebook: A year in scandalYou’re reading this
    2. 14:13Adopting stray cats and putting them to work
    3. 22:21Eat your heart out: Origins of our popular idioms and phrases
    4. 36:44In Mexico, Christmas is about the family matriarch and lots of food
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      Barbara Bogaev

      radio journalist

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      Sarah Sweeney

      Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW

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      Michell Eloy

      Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play

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      Amy Ta

      Digital News & Culture Editor

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      April Glaser

      senior research fellow at Harvard University

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      Andrew Walsh

      Too Beautiful to Live

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    The full episode

    1 of 4
    Why it’s so hard to leave Facebook
    1. 0:00Facebook: A year in scandalYou’re reading this
    2. 14:13Adopting stray cats and putting them to work
    3. 22:21Eat your heart out: Origins of our popular idioms and phrases
    4. 36:44In Mexico, Christmas is about the family matriarch and lots of food
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