In this episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon analyzes the necessary transformation of social networks with Anne Cagan, head of the Tech section at L’Express.
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The team: Xavier Yvon (presentation), Charlotte Baris (writing), Mathias Penguilly (editing), Jules Krot (directing) and Marion Galard (work-study).
Credits: BFM Business, Euronews, Europe 1, France 2, France 24, i24news, Jean Massiet Replay, AP
Music and dressing: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
Picture credits: Chandan Khanna/AFP
Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain/Thibaut Zschiesche
How to listen to a podcast? Follow the leader.
Xavier Yvon: You may know that La Loupe has nothing to envy to Netflix or Amazon in terms of series: we also know how to keep our listeners spellbound with emblematic characters and plots that span several weeks or even several months. For example, we are already on the fifth part of our story on Didier Raoult and his troubled studies. On climate, you were told about attribution, then mitigation, and then adaptation, and the series is not over…
Today, I am therefore announcing the creation of a new soap opera: we started it at the start of the school year, with an episode called “L’hiver de la tech”. On a Game of Thrones-like atmosphere, our journalists explained to you how this tech sector was facing a big cold snap, caused in particular by the Covid:
Anne Cagan : Inevitably, now that the confinements are over, the activity is down. There are also stars of the pandemic who fall from above. We have seen it for example with Zoom, videoconferencing or Peloton, high-end exercise bikes. All these companies, we thought they were going to be a hit in the next world. Except that in fact, the world after is not so different from the world before. Now that the lockdowns are over, people are going back to their normal lives.
Xavier Yvon : And this winter has finally set in… Its consequences are more and more visible, both in start-ups and in the giants of the sector. In this second episode, we find some of our protagonists: social networks. To survive, resist new adversaries – and come back in the next episodes – they must now imagine a new model.
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Elon Musk’s crazy projects – The Express report