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This week on the interview episode of The Vergecast, Nilay Patel chats with Alex Stamos, director of Stanford’s Internet Observatory and former chief security officer for Facebook.
Stamos was at Facebook during the Cambridge Analytica scandal, so the discussion covers a lot of what was going on at Facebook and how the scandal has changed Facebook since. They also get into the trade-offs big platforms have to make between issues like end-to-end encryption, working with law enforcement, keeping users secure from bad actors, and what the threats are for platforms in the upcoming election. Below is a lightly edited excerpt of the conversation.
Nilay Patel: Obviously I want to talk to you about Facebook. But we just had Michael Bennet,…