**John Coogan** (0:02)
Two major stories, a bunch of major stories, but the big one, Facebook got a movie, another movie, actually a third movie, if you count the documentary, there's been The Social Network, The Social Dilemma, and now The Social Reckoning. Only two of those are movies, The Social Dilemma is a documentary, but it's very interesting, and The Anthropic got a fable, and there's been a ton of reaction. Ben Thompson is writing about it.
To the rollout there, The Wall Street Journal. The announcement should have been like, the really good model launches, and people are amazed at what it can do, but they put the title, Anthropic puts curbs on AI models. So, I'm sure you've seen this on the timeline, but we'll take you through some of the debates over how restricted the model is in certain areas. Bio is a big one, Cyber is another one. There's a bunch of funny examples. There's a bunch of reasonable arguments for doing this type of stuff. So we'll go through all of it. So, I want to kick it off with the social network sequel. I want to watch the trailer for The Social Reckoning because Jeremy Strong is playing Mark Zuckerberg. I've heard people say, hey, he looks like Zuck, like the styling is there. The one critique is Jeremy Strong looks a little bit older than Mark Zuckerberg did in 2011
**Jordi Hays** (1:19)
They're calling him Unc?
**John Coogan** (1:22)
It just doesn't... I think it'll color the movie a little bit in the sense that the film is telling the story of this very difficult whistleblower situation and it's different when it looks like a mature adult versus someone who was young and running into these problems for the first time. So let's pull up the trailer.
**Jordi Hays** (1:45)
Listen, before I go on, I want to make something clear.
**John Coogan** (1:47)
This is how it starts. Okay.
**Jordi Hays** (1:49)
I have a hunch you're not a fan of Facebook, but I am.
I am here to help Facebook, not hurt it. Okay? You sent me a message.
**John Coogan** (1:58)
What would you like to talk about?
**Jordi Hays** (2:04)
The chairman gavels the session to order. You'll read your opening statement, which will skip past for now.
**John Coogan** (2:11)
That's a separate session.
**Jordi Hays** (2:12)
I will move to witness questioning.
**John Coogan** (2:17)
Spell your name and state your current occupation for the record. So is it not Fincher this time?
**Jordi Hays** (2:21)
M-A-R-K-S-U-C-K-E-R-B-E-R-G.
**John Coogan** (2:23)
Let's see. And your occupation?
Zuckerberg. Oh, it's co-produced and directed by Aaron Sorkin.
**Jordi Hays** (2:30)
For 30 percent of content, it's multiple risk factors. Hang on, I don't understand what you're saying.
**John Coogan** (2:34)
Companion piece to the social network.
**Jordi Hays** (2:35)
Are you a tech reporter? Ish.
**John Coogan** (2:38)
Ish?
**Jordi Hays** (2:38)
Is this Mike Isaac? I don't think so.
**John Coogan** (2:42)
Jeff Horwitz.
**Jordi Hays** (2:43)
I'm happy to lend a hand, but I think you do.
**John Coogan** (2:45)
He wrote broken code. He was a journalist at the Wall Street Journal. He is a journalist at the Wall Street Journal. Broken a number of global news stories, including the Facebook files.
**Jordi Hays** (2:55)
The fire hose of bad information. You are injecting it to the air supply.
**John Coogan** (2:58)
Ooh, Bill Burr. I'm a free speech absolutist. I'm not the one who's lying, and I'm not stopping them from seeing someone who is. It's not a bad Zuck impression. He's got the voice tone pretty down.
**Jordi Hays** (3:09)
As a result of time spent on the platform.
**John Coogan** (3:11)
Senior leadership knows and is doing nothing.
**Jordi Hays** (3:14)
I know there are easier enemies to make. The mafia would be an easier enemy to make. So what would you need?
**John Coogan** (3:20)
To stand up the story, the internal documents. This is a material violation of my NDA.
**Jordi Hays** (3:25)
We're twice as big as the biggest country on earth. We're not fighting the Congress. We're post-government around here.
**John Coogan** (3:30)
Twice as big as the biggest country on earth? We have 102 hours to get everything.
**Jordi Hays** (3:35)
From a user standpoint?
**John Coogan** (3:36)
Oh, okay, users.
**Jordi Hays** (3:37)
I don't want to be made an example by a guy with unlimited resources.
**John Coogan** (3:41)
I promise you, he's imminent.
**Jordi Hays** (3:43)
Enough!
**John Coogan** (3:44)
People around here understand that when I say no, that's the end of the debate. I'm not two years out of a dorm room anymore, Charlie. Look around. And if they were trying to go as inspirational as the social network, they really missed the mark there. What happened?
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