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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Designing a Better Facebook
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Cyberspace Didn’t Stay Free
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Public Education, Facebook-Style
32 min
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Unmasking The Russians Who Hacked The DNC
31 min
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What Happened To WikiLeaks
39 min
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Fake Meat Designed for Carnivores
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Local News Brought to You by Big Tech
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Uber and Lyft Drivers Strike
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Livestreaming A Massacre
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Your Social Media Photos Are Helping to Build t...
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How To Trust A VPN
Everyone says you should use a VPN. But what about when the VPN is totally sketch?
27 min
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Empathy at Scale
Journalist Casey Newton on the trauma of Facebook content moderators.
29 min
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Can Palantir Be Used For Good?
Palantir has been criticized for building predictive policing tech, now the company is working with the UN.
28 min
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Jeff Bezos’s Privacy Complexifier
Jeff Bezos lost control of his own intimate data. Will his company protect ours?
26 min
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The Court-Records Paywall Scam
The Federal Judiciary Is Making Millions of a Records System Many Think Should Be Free.
41 min
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Media Layoffs Are Trending
32 min
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Juul Heist
Wired’s Nitasha Tiku Breaks Down Juul, the Company That Dominates E-Cigarettes.
39 min
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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.
48 min
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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.
40 min
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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.
46 min
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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.
31 min
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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.
31 min
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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.
40 min
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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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