Lawyers and doctors have a code of ethics. Teachers have them. Even journalists have them. So why not the tech sector, the people who create and design our very modes of communication? Coders and desi...Show More
Fake news. Foreign meddling. Fraud. Deliberate deception: the list goes on. And we consume all of it, sometimes not knowing the source or what is truth. What can we do to confront the epidemic of disi...Show More
As we say in the radio biz â the mic is always on.
Things you might think a sophisticated first-world country would know about its citizens...we simply don't. Numbers and information that might help researchers and planners find answers and direct the...Show More
Maybe share this episode with your uncle, who posted some weird stuff last week. Or your grandma. Or your dad. Our older relatives are being fed a diet of digital lies, and it's our fault, collectivel...Show More
Casey Newton covers technology for The Verge and writes The Interface newsletter. âI remember one time a Facebook employee told me when I wrote something critical and I said something like, âYeah, I ...Show More
In this season finale of Prime(d), we go deep into how neighborhood social networks and surveillance are changing our behavior in our neighborhoods.
In the inaugural episode of Tricky, Emily Bell and Heather Chaplin look at perhaps the greatest challenge facing journalism today: the fight to capture your attention and speak with Natasha Schull, au...Show More
On November 1, 2018, thousands of Google employees around the world staged a mass walkout in protest of how the company handled claims of sexual misconduct. While this is not the first time we have se...Show More
The integrity of the internet is at stake -- what have we lost and how do we get it back? At the 2019 Texas Tribune Festival, Anil spoke with web scholars and writers about reclaiming the internet thr...Show More
After 18 months of consultation, Google sister company Sidewalk Labs has released its master draft proposal to develop a portion of Torontoâs waterfront. The proposal includes everything from an affor...Show More
Sara gets a job as a foodora courier to find out what life is like when your boss is an app. On the job she uncovers some unexpected challenges and risks. In this episode, we meet several - much more ...Show More
In the social media world, Instagram has dominated as the most used app in 2019, but what happened to Snapchat? Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany dive into where Snapchat is after Instagram stole thei...Show More
The idea behind the Citizen app is that its users upload videos of the things that are going on in the neighborhood in real time â anything from as a gas leak to something potentially a lot more viole...Show More
Itâs been four years since the 2016 election laid bare the powerful role that social media companies have come to play in shaping political discourse and beliefs in America. Since then, there have be...Show More
With former Google designer Tristan Harris, who explains how far Silicon Valley will go to capture and control your eyeballs. And Snapchat artist CyreneQ, who makes her living drawing on her phone all...Show More
We watched The Social Dilemma on Netflix and it brought up all kinds of thoughts and feelings for us about social media. We tease apart some of those thoughts and what the government's role should or ...Show More
It was supposed to be a simple story about the California drought. Instead, reporter Emily Guerin became obsessed with the bizarre history of a sprawling, half-built desert city.
Recently, one of the worldâs leading AI ethics researchers, Timnit Gebru, left Google. Google says she resigned. Timnit says she was fired. In the days since, Timnitâs departure has turned into a publ...Show More
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This is a great episode on tech ethics! Lots of good points to chew on. Some quick highlights: - I didn't know that Twitter filters Nazis and Holocaust deniers in Germany (because they're required to ...Show More