#60 with Prof. Joyojeet Pal (Future of Social Media)

We discussed the history of social media and misinformation networks, about Elon Musk and if he is a genius or ruthless evil capitalist, about tech chaos and the future of the jobs market in the era of mass firing and so much more.

Prof. Joyojeet Pal is an Associate Professor at the School of Information at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to this he was a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India. His recent work has been on the use of social media in mainstream politics, particularly in India. In the past, he has been a visiting scholar at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology University of Tokyo, and at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University.

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