The Shooting Breezes podcast, with your hosts Brad and Jacqui, are discussing all things social media this week, with Twitter and Facebook in the cross hairs, as well as the outdated model of the working week.

To get things rolling, Brad keeps up the space theme from previous weeks, asking Jacqui what personal item she would take on a 3-year journey to Mars. Here’s the key question: can you access the cloud from Mars? Then its trivia time (current score: Brad 1; Jacqui 1), and Jacqui wants to test Brad on “twin movies” – that phenomena of two separate movies with eerily similar plots being released in the same year. It’s a rollercoaster of twin action movies, thrillers, and romantic comedies. Can you name them all?

Jacqui has news this week. It’s about a Grandma in Norway who has been court ordered to take photos of her grandchild off social media platforms. This story brings up salient topics of online privacy for the digital native generation, and what the EU General Data Protection Regulation is trying to achieve.

Brad’s news is fresh off the press, or fresh off the Twitter feed. President Trump’s tweets, for the first time, have been flagged by Twitter with a fact checking warning. Is it a good move from Twitter? What responsibility do these social media giants have to fight misinformation of their platforms? Brad and Jacqui take a stab at answering those questions and more.

In this week’s ‘Blue Sky Thinking’ segment, Jacqui wants to revisit the working week, and wonders if it is finally time to revamp it. Does the 9-5, 5-day working week still make sense in this technological age? How does movement to greater flexibility in working conditions occur? New Zealand and Canada may start showing us the way, and we want to follow.

If you feel it is necessary, please flag us for fact checking on Twitter @shootinbreezes. Or just let us know what you thought of this week’s episode!

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52758787

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/technology/twitter-trump-mail-in-ballots.html