On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, POTUS‘ racist tweets, trouble for Facebook‘s new cryptocurrency and a $5 billion fine, Elon Musk vs. drug kingpins, tapping into the brain, and much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy, Dwayne & Tosin: The Gardens Between

Headlines

• Trump’s Racist Tweets Aren’t Racist, Twitter Decides
  • Trump’s Tweets So Clearly Racist It’s Spelled Out In Discrimination Law
• Apple will reportedly fund exclusive podcasts to challenge Spotify

Audible Book of the Week

• Talking to Robots: Tales from Our Human-Robot Futures by David Ewing Duncan
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: For the Love of Money by The O’Jays

Hot Topic: Facebook/Libra

• Facebook is staring down a record-setting $5 billion fine
• Donald Trump is ‘not a fan’ of cryptocurrency, Facebook Libra
  • Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he has serious concerns about Facebook’s Libra, joining Trump and other officials including the Federal Reserve chairman
  • Highlights from Facebook’s Libra Senate hearing

Music Break: Fire  by Ohio Players

Final Word

• Pablo Escobar’s brother escalates flamethrower feud with Elon Musk, threatens Tesla takeover

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Elon Musk Announces Plan to ‘Merge’ Human Brains With AI
  • Watch Elon Musk’s Neuralink presentation

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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 Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.