How the ‘Move Fast’ era of Facebook led to one of its biggest scandals

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There was a time when the News Feed was full of applications. The early 2010s was the first time that Mark Zuckerberg tried to make Facebook more than a social network and a platform for developers.

Mobile phones and the app economy were just starting to take off when it was a formative time for the internet. When it was growing to hundreds of millions of users, Facebook made decisions that still haunt it today. What did he get wrong that led to Facebook's dominance?

The second episode of Land of the Giants is a tease of what you can expect. The stories of Facebook's journey to becoming Meta have been told in seven episodes by Recode and The Verge.

The creation of the News Feed was the subject of our first episode. The consequences of pursuing that vision are looked at in the second episode. The era that brought us FarmVille and "Log In With Facebook" led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

You can listen to the second episode of Land of the Giants: The Facebook / Meta Disruption on the following websites.