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)
Arch Mission Foundation’s Nova Spivack: “Humanity's billion-year backup”
UC Berkeley's Alison Gopnik: "Babies are the ultimate supercomputers"
Humu's Laszlo Bock: "Nudge, nudge"
Dr Phyllis Gardner, Stanford professor and Theranos critic: "I'll only really feel good if she's convicted"
Troy Carter: "There was no Plan B"
Jon Vlassopulos: "We're all nano-influencers"
BeeFlow's Matias Viel: "Bionic Bees"
Renee DiResta: "Information gone haywire"
Patreon's Jack Conte: “People used to pay for things”
Academia.edu's Richard Price: "The end of the paywall"
Uber's Mark Moore: "Don't call them flying cars"
Five questions with... Benedict Evans
Credit Karma's Nichole Mustard: "Self-driving finance"
DoNotPay's Josh Browder: "Your very own robot lawyer”
Y Combinator's Michael Seibel: "Stupidity or genius"
Pioneer's Daniel Gross: “Everything big starts small”
Chargepoint's Pat Romano: "Hiding in plain sight"
Five Questions with... Tim Draper
IndieBio’s Arvind Gupta: “Recoding life”
Houseparty’s Ben Rubin and Sima Sistani: “An epidemic of loneliness”
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