The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Mike Harris, founder of 89up, to talk about his work uncovering Russia’s election meddling in Brexit (2:25), the importance of Facebook groups in spreading misinformation (4:10), making an enemy of Russia (7:00), the government’s impending ‘fake news’ report (8:10), the “Mainstream Network” (9:20), Facebook’s complicity in anonymity (14:15), the problem with the master algorithm (17:30), how to fix it (19:45), and the business of chaos (22:35)
Virgin Galactic’s George Whitesides: “Democratising space”
Zeus Living's Kulveer Taggar: "The Greek god of corporate housing"
Fifty Years’ Seth Bannon: “Passing the Mr. Burns test”
Caliva's Dennis O'Malley: "We're simple farmers - of cannabis"
Socos Labs' Vivienne Ming: “I want to build better people”
Atari’s Al Alcorn: “The dog who caught the car”
Tulip's Tom Harries: "Ashes to airmail"
Openwater's Mary Lou Jepson: "Telepathy is inevitable"
Pinscreen's Hao Li: "Deepfakes have been democratised
Square Roots' Kimbal Musk: “Working in tech was like chewing sawdust”
Lily.ai’s Purva Gupta: “Why do these shorts make me sad?”
Humm’s Iain McIntyre and Tim Fiori: “A brain-enhancement subscription”
Stratechery's Ben Thompson: "Apple's App Store is textbook anti-competitive"
Microsoft's Brad Smith: "Orwell's 1984 was a warning"
Atari's Nolan Bushnell: "I started tinkering in third grade and never stopped"
Ben Horowitz: "Jeff Bezos should be more like Genghis Khan”
Stuart Russell: “When machines become smarter than us, there will be no 'reset' button”
Lilium's Daniel Wiegand: "Flying hairdryers"
Prellis Biologics’ Melanie Matheu: “Lab-grown kidneys"
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