Geekout with Matt Navarra

Updated: 07 Sep 2021 • 21 episodes
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Matt Navarra and Martin SFP Bryant explore the world of social media, talking to big names and chewing over the latest news. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geekoutmattnavarra/support

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Martin SFP Bryant + Matt Navarra & Katie Carroll 07 Sep 2021 • EN

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

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 the information they need to help them do their jobs better. Matt Nava

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Martin SFP Bryant + Matt Navarra & Stan Chudnovsky 31 Aug 2021 • EN

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

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 messaging and WhatsApp fit into this world? What about the metaverse? And c

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Matt Navarra + Martin SFP Bryant & David Carroll + Carole Cadwalladr 18 Aug 2021 • EN

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

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 official Oversight Board started work last year. Since then they’ve use

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 journalists who emphasise their own personality and identity, and she give

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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 all buy things. This season, our interviews are recorded live on Twi

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Geekout with Matt Navarra is back! This week we chat with Will Cathcart, head of WhatsApp. We discuss WhatsApp's battle to save end-to-end encryption from governments around the world, the growth of messaging as a business tool, and ask lots of geeky questions about WhatsApp's features and plans. This season, our inter

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