This week’s Drill Down podcast, Silicon Valley responds to the election of Donald Trump, fake news on the internet, Apple wrote the book on product design…and it’s for sale, and much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: GE Podcast Theater & Panoply’s LifeAfter podcast
Dwayne: The Handmaiden (Park Chan Wook) ; Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
Tosin: Dr. Strange, This guy made a Beastie Boys remix album using only Daft Punk samples

Headlines

• Tech CEO letters to employees address feelings of unrest after election
• Twitter suspends alt-right accounts
• iPhones Secretly Send Call History to Apple, Security Firm Says

Audible Book of the Week

• Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: Lies by Thompson Twins

Hot Topic: Fake News on the Internet

• Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook
  • Viral Fake Election News Outperformed Real News On Facebook In Final Months Of The US Election
  • Zuckerberg: the idea that fake news on Facebook influenced the election is “˜crazy’
  • Zuckerberg vows to weed out Facebook ‘fake news’
  • Facebook’s Fight Against Fake News Was Undercut by Fear of Conservative Backlash
  • Renegade Facebook Employees Form Task Force To Battle Fake News
• Google admits it messed up with fake election story
  • Google and Facebook Take Aim at Fake News Sites
• Snowden: Stop Relying On Facebook For Your News

Music Break: Check It Out (Daft Science Remix) by Coins

Final Word

• Apple releases $300 book containing 450 photos of Apple products

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• MacBook Pro with Touch Bar review

• SHOWDOWN: Google Home VS  Amazon Echo!

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box product manager Tosin Onafowokan.