The networks that pushed fake news in 2016 didn't go away in 2018, but they did change. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.

Howard Dean on 2020 and tech in politics

Nov 13th, 2018 19m 59s

Howard Dean on why the next Democratic nominee for president should be under 55 and how the party can catch up on technology. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califo

Will your vote count in 2018? I hope so.

Nov 6th, 2018 18m 35s

Our elections aren't secure, but that's not the worst news. There's also an effort to make us doubt the results of our own elections. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy a

Joe Hall on why phone voting is a terrible idea and why secrets only last 20 years

Oct 30th, 2018 24m 41s

Joe Hall is the Chief Technologist at Center for Democracy & Technology, an organization that promotes free expression online, privacy and tries to put controls on government surveillance. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out informa

Michael Daniel, Obama's cybersecurity head: Cyberwar could take down our power grid

Oct 23rd, 2018 19m 24s

Michael Daniel talks about what Obama could have done to respond to Russia and about cyberwars bleeding into the real world See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californ

Bill Browder on Rand Paul, Dana Rohrabacher and Russia

Oct 16th, 2018 26m 38s

Bill Browder made billions in post-Soviet Russia. Then his lawyer was murdered and he became an activist. The man behind the Magnitsky Act talks Putin, Donald Trump and Congress. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.See P

Scott Adams, Dilbert cartoonist, on Trump and why facts don't matter

Oct 9th, 2018 23m 2s

"Donald Trump will be the last human president," Scott Adams Tweeted recently. The Dilbert cartoonist talks about Google, Facebook and Twitter and why he thinks the companies are too liberal. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out infor

Judd Legum says conservatives bullying Facebook and Twitter

Oct 2nd, 2018 21m 47s

Do conservatives have legitimate complaints about the social networks or are they merely gaming the refs by pretending they do? A fact-check of a Think Progress article has liberals crying foul. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out inf

Uber's fixer Bradley Tusk on the wave of regulation coming for tech

Sep 25th, 2018 24m 33s

Bradley Tusk ran Michael Bloomberg's campaign, he also busted through regulation for tech companies like FanDuel and Uber. Tusk talks about fixing politics with cell phone votes and regulation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out info

Jake Sullivan recounts being in the Clinton campaign as it blindsided by the Russian assault

Sep 18th, 2018 19m 20s

Jake Sullivan was senior advisor to Hillary Clinton's campaign and witnessed Russia's attempts to intervene in our election firsthand. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy a

Michael Isikoff on why Obama didn't stop Russian meddling in 2016

Sep 11th, 2018 24m 6s

Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo, talks about the Obama administration's response to Putin's actions in the 2016 presidential election. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.See Privacy Policy a

Rep. Denny Heck says Trump collusion with Russia ‘is well-established’

Sep 4th, 2018 18m 31s

Rep. Denny Heck, a member of the House intelligence committee, talks about the end of the Trump presidency. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notic

Kim Zetter on hacking Georgia election and lawyer David Cross on stopping it

Aug 28th, 2018 23m 7s

Kim Zetter, author of "Countdown to Zero Day," discusses a case of a missing server in Georgia's election system and David Cross, a lawyer with Morrison & Foerster, talks about a lawsuit against the state to get Georgia Secretary of State Brian

Alexander Malkevich is the head of USAReally and says he's not a troll

Aug 22nd, 2018 17m 15s

Alexander Malkevich, the editor of USA Really, a website with ties to the Russian groups indicted by Robert Mueller, says his website isn't fake news. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.See Privacy Policy at https://art

Cory Doctorow on how Facebook's 'surveillance system' swung the election

Aug 14th, 2018 28m 51s

Science fiction author and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow says Facebook helped Trump's campaign connect with tiny, toxic demographics. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy a

Washington Post editor Marc Fisher on the story of QAnon

Aug 7th, 2018 20m 15s

Marc Fisher of the Washington Post talks about how technology and the president have super-charged conspiracies. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy

FBI agent Clint Watts on how Russia worked to get Trump elected

Jul 31st, 2018 29m 50s

Clint Watts is a former FBI officer who watched Russia's disinformation campaign for the 2016 election develop. He talks about what we can expect for 2018. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.See Privacy Policy at https:

Author Adam Fisher on the complex politics of Silicon Valley

Jul 24th, 2018 15m 43s

Adam Fisher, author of "Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley, As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom," talks about the libertarian roots of tech and how the Valley ended up (nearly) all-in on Clinton

Ex-NSA official Oren Falkowitz: Russian hack of DNC was 'assembly line operation'

Jul 17th, 2018 17m 13s

Oren Falkowitz, CEO of Area 1 Security and a former NSA official, walks through the DNC hack and concludes it wasn't novel in its sophistication. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.co

Barbara Simons on why our voting system isn't safe

Jul 11th, 2018 14m 41s

Barbara Simons is a computer scientist—and she doesn't trust our voting computers. States without paper ballots could be hacked without us ever knowing. And we do know that Russia probed our defenses in 2016. See acast.com/privacy for privacy a

Angie Drobnic Holan on how Donald Trump broke fact-checking

Jul 3rd, 2018 11m 37s

A conversation with Angie Drobnic Holan, Editor of PolitiFact, about how lies and misinformation can clog the conversation and keep out the real news and how Facebook and Google are helping fact-checkers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and o

Adam Sharp, Twitter’s former head of news, says Trump won't acknowledge threats

Jun 26th, 2018 15m 24s

Adam Sharp, Twitter’s former head of news, says it's being left to companies to fight online propaganda. And Representative Derek Kilmer on the chances the Honest Ads Act will pass before the elections. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt

Samuel Woolley says that bots are already wrecking the 2018 midterms

Jun 20th, 2018 14m 10s

Samuel Woolley, Director of the Digital Intelligence (DigIntel) Lab, Institute for the Future, talks about bots — foreign and domestic — and how they are poisoning political conversation around the world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and

Bots & Ballots Trailer

Jun 16th, 2018 56s

Bots & Ballots from Yahoo News will launch June 20th, 2018! Look out for new episodes every Wednesday. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at

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