Facebook's privacy pivot and the streaming wars

Breaking down Mark Zuckerberg’s letter on Facebook about its privacy-focused future. The Verge's Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn,  Julia Alexander, Casey Newton, and Paul Miller discuss Facebooks new pivot to privacy, the next move for HBO after the AT&T restructure, and YouTube's bad actors. 

Stories from this episode: 

• The president just called the CEO of Apple ‘Tim Apple’
• Read Mark Zuckerberg's letter on Facebook's privacy-focused future …
• Mark Zuckerberg promises a newer, more private Facebook 
• Facebook knows Facebook isn't the future
• Facebook's pivot to privacy has huge implications — if it's real
• The messy details behind Facebook’s messaging plans
• HBO CEO Richard Plepler is leaving the company amid AT&T …
• AT&T's new HBO chief criticizes Netflix, says it 'doesn't have a brand …
• AT&T just made its first huge changes to HBO and the rest of …
• Game of Thrones' final season trailer prepares us for the biggest fight …
• Disney is ending its vault program, giving Disney+ a huge boost in the streaming wars
• How baseball’s tech team built the future of television
• Dying social robot Jibo goes out with a song and a dance
• YouTube is demonetizing all videos about Momo 
• YouTube's family vloggers worry about future amid comments …
• YouTube terminates more than 400 channels following controversy …
• YouTube is 'aggressively approaching' solution to child exploitation ...