Geekout with Matt Navarra

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19. LinkedIn's unusual approach to news on social media, with Katie Carroll

2021-09-0734:16

Katie Carroll heads up LinkedIn News for North America and the UK. In a world where social media is rife with misinformation and trashy stories that waste your time, LinkedIn curates and packages news to help the platform's professional audience get th...

18. What's next for Facebook messaging, with Messenger's Stan Chudnovsky

2021-08-3126:53

Stan Chudnovsky heads up Messenger at Facebook. As Messenger turns 10 years old, we ask him about its future as it transitions into being more of a layer across all of Facebook's properties, rather than just a standalone app. How does Instagram messagi...

17. The Real Facebook Oversight Board on fighting social media's dark side

2021-08-1847:35

Carole Cadwalladr and Professor David Carroll are both well known voices against what they see as Facebook’s wrongdoing. They were two founding members of a group called The Real Facebook Oversight Board, launched just three weeks before Facebook’s off...

16. The BBC's Sophia Smith Galer on TikTok journalism and positivity online

2021-08-0450:47

What happens when you cross a professional news report on a ship stuck in the Suez Canal with a sea shanty? The answer is one of BBC visual journalist Sophia Smith Galer’s biggest hits on TikTok. Sophia joins us to talk about a new generation of journa...

15. Shopify's Shimona Mehta on the social shopping revolution

2021-07-2749:04

This week we chat with Shimona Mehta, Shopify's managing director for the EMEA region. We discuss how social platforms are increasingly adopting shopping features, how platforms like Shopify power them, and what this all means for the future of how we ...

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