The Rip Current

Jacob Ward

We're in the invisible grip of technology, politics, and our own weirdness. We gotta get better at seeing it. Hosted by veteran journalist Jacob Ward (correspondent for Al Jazeera, PBS, NBC News, and CNN), The Rip Current is your guide to spotting the hidden forces at work in our lives and getting across them safely. Each week we speak to experts in the stuff you didn't know was having an impact on your life, from venture capital to racism to the tried-and-true tactics of bullies, and teach you how to see The Rip Current before it sweeps you out to...

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The Rip Current

Episodes (118)

Saturday Meta Trial Day 2: If Zuckerberg Wanted it Done, It Would Be Done
Wednesday The Meta Trial: How Zuck Will Fight Back
Wed Aug 19th The Meta Trial: The States Say “We Have the Evidence”

The Rip Current

Aug 22, 2026
13 minutes
12 MB

Day two of the multistate trial against Meta in federal court in Oakland, where 29 state attorneys general are asking Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to reach inside the company and change how Instagram and Facebook work. Arturo Bejar — former head of engineering for Facebook’s protection group, later head of well-being at Instagram — is the states’ first witness, and their strongest. He testified on direct and under cross-examination by Meta’s defense. Bejar told the court that priorities at Meta flow from one person: “If Mark Zuckerberg wakes up and decides something is a priority, then mountains move.” He described a...

The Rip Current

Meta Trial Day 2: If Zuckerberg Wanted it Done, It Would Be Done

Jacob Ward

00:00 -12:40