Bridging The Divide w/ Issie Lapowsky
There are oceans of research papers digging into the various harms of online platforms. Researchers are asking urgent questions such as how hate speech and misinformation has an effect on our informat...
13 Sep 202438min
Why was the CEO of Telegram just arrested? w/ Mallory Knodel
Last week, CEO of Telegram Pavel Durov landed in France and was immediately detained. The details of his arrest are still emerging; he is being charged for being complicit in illegal activities happen...
6 Sep 202444min
Exhibit X: What did we learn?
That’s the END of Exhibit X folks; if you’ve been following along, congratulations on choosing to become smarter. If not that’s okay, consider this episode a delicious teaser for the series.In this ep...
30 Aug 202435min
Exhibit X: The Community
What makes an expert witness? How does a socio-technical researcher become one? Now that we’re the end of this miniseries, we might finally be ready to answer these questions…In the fifth instalment o...
23 Aug 202447min
Exhibit X: The Courts
Imagine: something horrible has happened and the only evidence you have is a video posted online. Can you submit it into evidence in court? Well, it’s complicated.In part 4 of our Exhibit X series, Al...
16 Aug 202444min
Exhibit X: The Litigators
Often it feels as though the cases and lawsuits brought against big tech firms are continuously piling up, but there never seems to be any resulting justice or resolution. There are many good reasons ...
9 Aug 202431min
Exhibit X: The Whistleblower
In part 2 of Exhibit X, Alix interviewed Frances Haugen, who In 2021 blew the whistle on Meta; they were sitting on the knowledge that their products were harmful to kids, and yet — shocker — they con...
2 Aug 202431min
Exhibit X: Tech and Tobacco
Here is something you’re probably tired of hearing: Big Tech is responsible for a bottomless brunch of societal harms. And they are not being held accountable. Right now it feels as though we hear con...
26 Jul 202427min
