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90: Micro Mockingbird
Robert Mueller, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Creation of Facebook
Adam Curry recounts a 2010 Time Magazine article where FBI Director Robert Mueller "burst into" a meeting with Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook headquarters. The hosts argue that Facebook and other social media platforms are essentially government agencies with private-facing CEOs. They discuss In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital firm, and its role in funding tech companies like Palantir, asserting that the "private corporation" label is a facade for government surveillance tools.