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The Motivations of Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen — With Her Lawyer Lawrence Lessig
Season 1 Episode 72
Lawrence Lessig is Frances Haguen's lawyer and a Harvard Law School professor. He joins Big Technology Podcast to address the various questions about…
4 years, 8 months ago
Are We Having a Moral Panic About Instagram? — With NYT's Farhad Manjoo
Season 4 Episode 71
Farhad Manjoo is an opinion columnist for the New York Times. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether the criticism of Instagram's impact …
4 years, 8 months ago
Amazon Rigs Search, Social Media 'Ampliganda,' Netflix Protests — With Adrianne Jeffries, Renee DiResta, and Zoë Schiffer
Season 1 Episode 70
Join us for a 'mega' episode with three guests! The Markup investigative reporter Adrianne Jeffries leads off with a discussion of Amazon's self-pref…
4 years, 8 months ago
Is Social Media A Scapegoat For Bigger Problems? — With Charlie Warzel at Unfinished Live
Season 1 Episode 69
Charlie Warzel writes the Galaxy Brain newsletter on Substack, a publication he started after a career at The New York Times and BuzzFeed. Warzel joi…
4 years, 8 months ago
Why Facebook Will Keep Building For Kids — With Michael Sayman
Season 1 Episode 68
Michael Sayman was 16 years old when Facebook recruited him to join the company. The overture arrived as he was sitting in math class, and the teache…
4 years, 9 months ago
Amazon Builds a Robot and Threatens Apple — With Wired's Lauren Goode
Season 1 Episode 67
Wired senior writer Lauren Goode was on hand this week as Amazon introduced Astro, a home robot, and a Ring home-monitoring drone. Goode joins Big Te…
4 years, 9 months ago
Unraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin
Season 1 Episode 66
Max Chafkin is the author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power, which debuts this week. The book is a fascinating, in…
4 years, 9 months ago
A Look Into Facebook's Soul — With WSJ's Jeff Horwitz and Ex-FB Exec. Brian Boland
Season 1 Episode 65
Jeff Horwitz is the Wall Street Journal reporter who unearthed a trove of internal Facebook documents that reveal a damning disconnect between what t…
4 years, 9 months ago
Inside The Theranos Trial — With Erin Griffith of The New York Times
Season 1 Episode 64
Erin Griffith is the New York Times reporter at the trial for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. She joins Big Technology Podcast to bring us inside …
4 years, 9 months ago
How The Music Industry Predicts The Future — With Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Season 1 Episode 63
Zack O'Malley Greenburg is a music journalist who's spent time with everyone from Katy Perry to Kanye West. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discus…
4 years, 10 months ago