E34: Wuhan lab leak theory, India's traceability law, Coinbase fact check, Big Tech takes Hollywood

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

May 31, 2021

Duration

1h 8m

Channel

All-In Podcast

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Follow the besties: https://twitter.com/chamath https://linktr.ee/calacanis https://twitter.com/DavidSacks https://twitter.com/friedberg Follow the pod: https://twitter.com/theallinpod https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast Intro Music Credit: https://rb.gy/tppkzl https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg Referenced in the show: WSJ - The Wuhan Lab Leak Question: A Disused Chinese Mine Takes Center Stage https://www.wsj.com/articles/wuhan-lab-leak-question-chinese-mine-covid-pandemic-11621871125 Forbes - Friends Don't Let Friends Become Chinese Billionaires https://www.forbes.com/sites/raykwong/2011/07/25/friends-dont-let-friends-become-chinese-billionaires/?sh=44597352ddae Brookings - Fentanyl and geopolitics: Controlling opioid supply from China https://www.brookings.edu/research/fentanyl-and-geopolitics-controlling-opioid-supply-from-china/ NPR - 'We Are Shipping To The U.S.': Inside China's Online Synthetic Drug Networks https://www.npr.org/2020/11/17/916890880/we-are-shipping-to-the-u-s-china-s-fentanyl-sellers-find-new-routes-to-drug-user Coinbase - Announcing Coinbase Fact Check: Decentralizing truth in the age of misinformation https://blog.coinbase.com/announcing-coinbase-fact-check-decentralizing-truth-in-the-age-of-misinformation-757d2392d61a Show Notes: 0:00 Friedberg recaps Sacks' birthday party 6:47 "Wuhan Lab Leak" theory, did COVID come from a lab? Plus China's fentanyl production 26:09 India's new "traceability" law 33:11 Coinbase & Brian Armstrong debut fact checking blog 41:17 Friedberg's science corner: groundbreaking gene therapies 45:06 Amazon's MGM acquisition, media consolidation 1:04:45 Biden's $6T infrastructure, Democrat's feeling the inflation pressure & responding #allin #tech #news

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Jason Calacanis

  host

• David Friedberg

  host

• Chamath Palihapitiya

  host

• Narrator

  other

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of All-In Podcast, featuring Jason Calacanis and David Sacks, E34: Wuhan lab leak theory, India's traceability law, Coinbase fact check, Big Tech takes Hollywood explores lab leak debate, India’s tech crackdown, and Big Tech conquers Hollywood This episode ranges from personal banter into a multi-front discussion on geopolitics, technology, media, and biotech. The Besties debate the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis, Chinese culpability, and how Trump, media bias, and Big Tech censorship distorted public discourse. They examine India’s new traceability law and its implications for encryption, global internet fragmentation, and the growing regulatory squeeze on Big Tech. The conversation then moves to Coinbase’s “fact check” strategy, the dismantling of traditional media, Big Tech’s takeover of Hollywood, the future of creators and distribution, and promising breakthroughs in gene and CAR‑T cancer therapies, before closing with quick takes on inflation and U.S. fiscal policy.

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