What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the...
Every Friday and Sunday, Slate’s popular daily news podcast What Next brings you TBD, a clear-eyed look into the future. From fake news to fake meat, algorithms to augmented reality, Lizzie O’Leary is your guide to the tech industry and the world it’s creating for us to live in.
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Social Media's Weird Future
The Atlantic’s Taylor Lorenz explains TikTok, Instagram eggs, and why teens are reading the comments.
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At CES: Tech After Smartphones
Smartphone sales are on the decline, but shady characters buying your location data is on the rise.
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Best of 2018
A look back at some of If Then’s best interviews of the year; Senator Mark Warner, Taylor Lorenz, Naomi Klein, Yeshimabeit Milner, Adam Mosseri, & Paige Panter.
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Aftermath of a Data Breach
A Cybersecurity expert on the bizarre legal battles after a big data theft and the confusion for everyday consumers who may have been affected.
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The Information World War
An interview with the lead author of a new report to the Senate Intelligence Committee on how rival powers are weaponizing social media.
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Warehouse Workers Bring Amazon To The Table
Workers at Amazon fulfillment centers in Minneapolis are fighting for better conditions. And Amazon is starting to come to the table.
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The Civil Rights Group Targeted By Facebook
A former employee wants reform, and a civil rights group wants its policy chief fired.
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Tomorrow's Children, Edited.
The journalist who broke the story on the first efforts to make gene-edited babies, reportedly born in China, joins If Then to talk about the controversial procedure’s history, future, and ethics.
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Facebook's Former Security Chief on What Went W...
Alex Stamos on the NYT expose, Facebook’s political balancing act, and why Russia might be targeting the left.
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Amazon's Prime Real Estate
An employment economist explains what cities had to gain from its HQ2 contest—and what they had to lose.
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The Meme Midterms
Has misinformation on social media gotten better or worse since 2016? And just how hackable are our voting machines?
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The Internet of Hate
How Hate Online Leads To Violence Offline.
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Who Owns Your DNA Data?
23andMe’s top privacy officer says you control your information. But there are some caveats.
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How Senator Mark Warner Wants to Crack Down on ...
The Senate Intel Committee’s Top Democrat on How Government Might Regulate Tech and What His Colleagues Need to Learn To Catch Up.
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Is Privacy A Right?
Tech lawyer Tiffany C. Li explains how privacy law has evolved in the digital age—and how it hasn’t.
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Fact And Fiction on Wikipedia
Wikimedia’s executive director explains how the site’s volunteer editors fight misinformation—and harassment.
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Reshuffling the Podcasting Deck
Hot Pod’s Nick Quah says the industry is on the precipice of big changes.
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Tech Barons Are the New Media Barons
A conversation with the Washington Post’s media columnist about the billionaires buying news organizations—including her own.
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If Then Presents: The Secret History of The Future
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Special Report: Apple’s New (Old) Gizmos
If Then breaks down the new gadgets from Apple’s big Annual Event.
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Google’s Real Biases
Despite what Ted Cruz might say, conservatives are the not the communities most harmed in internet searches.
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How The Future Of Music Streaming Will Sound
If Then chats about how artists are faring in the streaming music economy, and what Justice Brett Kavanaugh could mean for the future of the internet.
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Twitter Without the Nazis
The founder of Mastodon on how he built an alternative social network, and why people are flocking to it.
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Google’s Secret Censorship Project
Google’s secret project to censor search in China.
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Making Sense of Elon Musk
Tesla and SpaceX reporter Dana Hull on what drives tech’s most enigmatic CEO.
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