Facebook is having a rough week. From the largest outage in its history on Monday, to the bombshell testimony a former employee turned whistleblower gave to the Senate on Tuesday, we’ve all been thinking about our relationship with these apps as individuals, and as a society. Sarah Frier, senior technology reporter for

Under pressure from lawmakers and public health officials, Facebook has recently ramped up efforts to combat Covid-19 vaccine misinformation on its site by banning anti-vaxxers and marking misleading posts as false. But according to Bloomberg tech reporter Sarah Frier, those measures are doomed to fall short because th

Sarah Frier is a technology journalist for Bloomberg News, and an author. Her book - 'No Filter' - released late last year highlighted the 'insider story' of Instagram. We spoke to Frier about the book, about social media in general, and covered a number of other topics for this wide-ranging interview.  The episode was

(12/16/20) In 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released a photo-sharing app called Instagram, with one simple but irresistible feature; it would make anything you captured look more beautiful. In less than two years, it caught Facebook’s attention. Mark Zuckerberg bought the company for a historic $1 billion when I

Bloomberg social media reporter and author Sarah Frier discusses how the big socials are addressing disinformation on their platforms.