The Twitter Fantasy from Land of the Giants
Today we’re playing you an episode of Land of the Giants that takes a walk down memory lane to the early days of Twitter and how the platform became the best and worst place on the internet. If you li...
6 Nov 202352min
How Elon Broke Twitter — and Twitter Broke Elon — with Ben Mezrich
What does a dramatic narrative nonfiction account of a dramatic tech CEO look like? To find out, we turn to Ben Mezrich, the author whose books have been adapted to films like 21, The Social Network, ...
2 Nov 20231h 7min
Uber’s Profit, Power and Problems with CEO Dara K
Uber: hard to live with it, or without it. In this episode Kara grills CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on the company’s sky-high prices, high take rate, treatment of drivers/couriers, policies around safety and...
30 Okt 20231h
Alexis Ohanian and Deb Roy on Big Tech’s Effects on Democracy
Democracy is challenged, at home and abroad, and at least some of this blame falls on “Big Tech.” Kara talks to Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder and venture capitalist, and Deb Roy, the director of t...
26 Okt 202351min
The Fog of War: Navigating Disinformation Now
Social media has been inundated with disinformation about the Israel-Hamas war — from a flood of graphic visual content, to unsubstantiated claims and opportunistic content generation (and monetizatio...
23 Okt 20231h
Christiane Amanpour on Covering This War
In the fog of war, we’re joined by CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour. She’s covered the Middle East for decades and brings her signature “truthful, not neutral” journalism to the tens...
19 Okt 202342min
Why Fei-Fei Li is Still Hopeful About AI (… and Elon)
What are the most immediate, and potentially catastrophic, risks posed by AI? According to pioneering AI researcher, Dr. Fei-Fei Li, they include disinformation, polarization, biases, a loss of privac...
16 Okt 20231h 1min
The Politics of Disagreement with Steve Inskeep
In a time of a divided House (and divided GOP) — not to mention polarized social media — how can you engage through disagreement? Abraham Lincoln may have some clues, as Steve Inskeep deduces. The jou...
12 Okt 20231h 4min
