Facebook's Long Week, Ask an Expert: Self-Promotion, 'Mass,' 'Children Under Fire'

Facebook is having a rough week. From the largest outage in its history on Monday, to the bombshell testimony a former employee turned whistleblower gave to the Senate on Tuesday, we’ve all been thinking about our relationship with these apps as individuals, and as a society. Sarah Frier, senior technology reporter for Bloomberg News and author of, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, joins to unpack a whirlwind week for Facebook, and listeners call in about how the outage made them re-evaluate their relationships with the tech giant. Bruce Kasanoff, who refers to himself as a social media ghostwriter who helps entrepreneurs share what matters most, and author of the book, How to Self-Promote (without Being a Jerk), joins to talk about the importance of self-promotion, and what strategies we all can use to get better at it. Plus, we take your calls. A new film follows two couples who meet in a church after tragedy has brought them together. One pair are the parents of a victim of a school shooting. The other are the parents of the shooter. Writer and director Fran Kranz joins us to discuss the film, “Mass,” which premieres October 8. [REBROADCAST FROM April 8, 2021] The threat of gun violence is a concern for many Americans as businesses and schools reopen. Pulitzer Prize finalist John Woodrow Cox joins us to discuss his new book on how gun violence specifically affects children, Children Under Fire: An American Crisis.