In this episode, we break comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's recent speech after accepting an award at the Anti-Defamation League’s summit in NYC where he launched a scathing attack on Mark Zuckerburg and Silicon Valley's lack of ethics when dealing with advertising on their social platforms. Beyond recapping the highlights of his speech, we give our take on WHY these companies tend to bend the rules of basic ethics and morality when it comes to the content that they allow to be advertised on their platforms . Then we dive into how they are dependent on this model that makes platforms such as Facebook so corrupt, broken in the first place. We also break down their lack of foresight when it came to monetizing their platform, how they settled on advertising and why that is often a business model "failure" and the dangers of when such failure belongs to companies that scale into becoming some of the biggest in the world. All that and more in recapping how Facebook’s platform has become the broken cesspool that it is today on the latest episode!
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