Attention Control with Kevin Newman Podcast
1) Introducing "Big Tech"
Big Tech is a bi-weekly podcast that explores how emerging technologies are reshaping the world as we know it. Co-hosts David Skok and Taylor Owen, an AC regular, sit down with leading scholars, polic...Show More
2) The History of Misinformation
In our series wrap, we trace the history of fake news. We start in 15th century Europe and end in the here and now. We talk to Dr. Jacob Soll who says that the cure to misinformation is more journalis...Show More
3) Digital governance: where does Canada stand?
This episode, we talk to Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith about platforms and privacy - about whether his government will stand-up to big tech. We also talk to friend-of-the-pod, Taylor Owen about t...Show More
4) Election 43: how did we fare and where do we go from here?
Forty days later and the ballots are in: Canada will be helmed by a Liberal minority. In this episode, we look back at those forty days and ask -- how did we do in this age of disinformation? Did our ...Show More
5) Patents over plants: the intangible economy
This episode, we break down the rising “intangible economy”, what our guest Jim Balsillie says is our shared future. We learn what it is, what it values and who it rewards. We also visit StatsCanada a...Show More
6) Our brains on Facebook
We’ve all heard about the impact Facebook had on the 2016 US election — but how much do we really know about what was going on? In this episode we talk to people at the centre of the 2016 Cambridge An...Show More
7) F*** this shit up
The internet can be a toxic place. Rumours spread like wildfire and put-downs are common parlance. In this episode, we dive into the chaos and ask, who shares false posts and why? Who enjoys a good Tw...Show More
8) Fact Checking the Fact Checkers
Since 2014, the number of fact checking outlets worldwide has quadrupled. In this past year alone, we saw a 26% increase in fact checking activity. In this episode, we put the issue to Taylor Owen and...Show More
9) The China Question
Canadian intelligence agencies are warning that China is among the foreign countries that may try to interfere Canada's election. As protests against the regime spike during the 70th anniversary of Ch...Show More
10) The data on us
Kevin sits down with a former political insider who had enough with the way Canadian political parties used our data to manipulate our votes. And Francesca Fionda, AC’s investigative correspondent pic...Show More