The Weekly Listen: Trump and Facebook's Oversight Board, private search, and Apple's podcast subscription

Audio by Mark Dolliver, Sara M. Watson, Jennifer Pearson, and Blake Droesch  |  Jan 29, 2021
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eMarketer principal analysts Mark Dolliver and Sara M. Watson, vice president of research Jennifer Pearson, and junior analyst at Insider Intelligence Blake Droesch discuss the pivotal decision of Facebook's Oversight Board to ban former President Donald Trump, private search engines making a push, whether social media damages teenagers' health, whether baby boomers will want to shop online post-pandemic, Apple's reported paywalled podcast platform, what happens to astronauts when they're in space, and more.

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