The Great Hack & Better Social Media

Show Notes 1:56 - The motivation for this episode 4:00 - Movie trailer for The Great Hack 6:19 - Darren and Ian shares their first impressions of the documentary trailer 11:05 - The power (and responsibility) of Netflix and other media companies 14:28 - The listener email sharing a friend's reflection on The Great Hack and her experience as someone whose personal data was released by Facebook to Cambridge Analytica and used to target her with political ads. 18:00 - Critics' coverage of The Great Hack 24:24 - Darren shares his experience with social media and the challenge of staying connected with friends while not being active on social media 27:49 - How Ian engages with social media in a constructive way. 30:44 - The evolution of social media and how its changed over the past ten years. 31:55 - Ian's rules for what to ignore and what to pay attention to on social media. 35:10 - Tips and tricks from our original episode on a Better Media Diet 35:42 - The visualization of media bias by Vanessa Otero and how to use it to understand bias in the media sources you encounter. 40:28 - Darren's rules for identifying and understanding bias in media sources. 42:40 - White papers and how to use them to dive deeper into a topic you care about. 44:02 - New features from Google and Bing to provide easier access to a variety of news sources and perspectives on individual topics. 46:57 - YouTube as a popular source for news. Mentions Documentary: The Great Hack Podcast: The Better Show, Episode 19 - Nourish your mind with a better media diet Website: AllGeneralizationsAreFalse.com - Vanessa Otero's visualization of media bias Website: GoodNewsNetwork.org Website: Postive.news Podcast: The Bored & Brilliant Challenge from Note to Self podcast by Manoush Zomorodi Article: Comparing Obama Campaign and Cambridge Analytica's Use of Facebook Data Movie Review: TechCrunch's review of The Great Hack