Podcasts by Bots

Jonathon Morgan on how Russian disinformation worked in 2018 from 2018-11-20T23:00:33

The networks that pushed fake news in 2016 didn't go away in 2018, but they did change.

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Joe Hall on why phone voting is a terrible idea and why secrets only last 20 years from 2018-10-30T22:00

Joe Hall is the Chief Technologist at Center for Democracy & Technology, an organization that promotes free expression online, privacy and tries to put controls on government surveillance. Listen

Michael Daniel, Obama's cybersecurity head: Cyberwar could take down our power grid from 2018-10-23T22:00

Michael Daniel talks about what Obama could have done to respond to Russia and about cyberwars bleeding into the real world

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"Donald Trump will be the last human president," Scott Adams Tweeted recently. The Dilbert cartoonist talks about Google, Facebook and Twitter and why he thinks the companies are too liberal.
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Judd Legum says conservatives bullying Facebook and Twitter from 2018-10-02T22:00

Do conservatives have legitimate complaints about the social networks or are they merely gaming the refs by pretending they do? A fact-check of a Think Progress article has liberals crying foul. Listen

Uber's fixer Bradley Tusk on the wave of regulation coming for tech from 2018-09-25T22:00:25

Bradley Tusk ran Michael Bloomberg's campaign, he also busted through regulation for tech companies like FanDuel and Uber. Tusk talks about fixing politics with cell phone votes and regulation.
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Jake Sullivan recounts being in the Clinton campaign as it blindsided by the Russian assault from 2018-09-18T22:00:21

Jake Sullivan was senior advisor to Hillary Clinton's campaign and witnessed Russia's attempts to intervene in our election firsthand.

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Michael Isikoff on why Obama didn't stop Russian meddling in 2016 from 2018-09-11T22:00

Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo, talks about the Obama administration's response to Putin's actions in the 2016 presidential election.

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Alexander Malkevich is the head of USAReally and says he's not a troll from 2018-08-22T04:15:06

Alexander Malkevich, the editor of USA Really, a website with ties to the Russian groups indicted by Robert Mueller, says his website isn't fake news.

from 2018-08-14T22:00:54

Science fiction author and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow says Facebook helped Trump's campaign connect with tiny, toxic demographics.

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Washington Post editor Marc Fisher on the story of QAnon from 2018-08-07T22:00:03

Marc Fisher of the Washington Post talks about how technology and the president have super-charged conspiracies.

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FBI agent Clint Watts on how Russia worked to get Trump elected from 2018-07-31T22:00

Clint Watts is a former FBI officer who watched Russia's disinformation campaign for the 2016 election develop. He talks about what we can expect for 2018.

from 2018-07-17T22:00

Oren Falkowitz, CEO of Area 1 Security and a former NSA official, walks through the DNC hack and concludes it wasn't novel in its sophistication.

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Barbara Simons on why our voting system isn't safe from 2018-07-11T01:00

Barbara Simons is a computer scientist—and she doesn't trust our voting computers. States without paper ballots could be hacked without us ever knowing. And we do know that Russia probed our defens...

Angie Drobnic Holan on how Donald Trump broke fact-checking from 2018-07-03T22:00:54

A conversation with Angie Drobnic Holan, Editor of PolitiFact, about how lies and misinformation can clog the conversation and keep out the real news and how Facebook and Google are helping fact-ch...

Adam Sharp, Twitter’s former head of news, says Trump won't acknowledge threats from 2018-06-26T19:13:53

Adam Sharp, Twitter’s former head of news, says it's being left to companies to fight online propaganda. And Representative Derek Kilmer on the chances the Honest Ads Act will pass before the ...

Samuel Woolley says that bots are already wrecking the 2018 midterms from 2018-06-20T09:00:54

Samuel Woolley, Director of the Digital Intelligence (DigIntel) Lab, Institute for the Future, talks about bots — foreign and domestic — and how they are poisoning political conversation ...

Bots & Ballots Trailer from 2018-06-16T19:42:30

Bots & Ballots from Yahoo News will launch June 20th, 2018! Look out for new episodes every Wednesday.

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