How has activism evolved in our digital society? In this episode, Sudhir talks to Jade Magnus Ogunnaike about the intersection of big tech and civil rights. She is a senior campaign director for Color of Change. It’s a racial justice organizati

4. Meet the Brain Behind Facebook’s Oversight Board

May 11th, 2021 35m 42s

Last week, the board upheld the ban of former President Donald Trump’s social media accounts. Sudhir talks to Noah Feldman, the constitutional law scholar who helped design this “supreme court” for content moderation. They reveal the inside sto

3. “Someone Needs to Save the World from Silicon Valley”

Apr 26th, 2021 35m 30s

If the big social-media companies are unable or unwilling to make major changes from within, it may be up to outsiders to create better, healthier digital communities. Whether it’s smaller platforms for like-minded people, a publicly owned soci

2. The Garbage Can Model of Decision Making

Apr 19th, 2021 39m 10s

What's it like to try and police millions of pieces of abusive content every day? Sudhir takes us inside Facebook, as he and his former colleagues recall how hard it was to encourage civility at a company obsessed with growth — especially when

1. Designed to Tear Us Apart

Apr 12th, 2021 36m 40s

When online anger turned to offline violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, the big social media companies responded by kicking some users — including the president himself — off their platforms. What led to that decision? Was it an overreac

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Introducing “Sudhir Breaks the Internet”

Feb 16th, 2021 2m 54s

Sudhir Venkatesh, a sociologist who has studied crack gangs, sex workers, and gun runners, suddenly found himself working at Facebook, and later at Twitter. Now he’s back from Silicon Valley to explore and explain our overheated digital univers

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