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Meta’s Prediction Market App, Europe vs. Big Tech, and Hollywood’s Comeback

Explore episode Jun 26, 2026

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Meta's Image Problem, Regulation & Shareholder Logic

At 11:37 · chapter starts 10:50

Kara questions whether it makes strategic sense for Meta — a company already under intense regulatory scrutiny and whose CEO was publicly called a 'sucker' by Trump that very week — to wade into prediction markets, another politically charged arena. Scott's answer is characteristically blunt: Meta doesn't give a shit about its image. The only metric that matters in unregulated capitalist America is shareholder returns, and Zuckerberg has delivered them consistently. Scott notes that 14-year-old girls are self-harming because of Sheryl Sandberg's business model, and Meta has absorbed that hit without flinching. Image is a luxury concern; margin is not.

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