Alexis Ohanian and Deb Roy on Big Tech’s Effects on Democracy

On with Kara Swisher

New York Magazine

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Democracy is challenged, at home and abroad, and at least some of this blame falls on “Big Tech.” Kara talks to Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder and venture capitalist, and Deb Roy, the director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, about how we got here and what some potential solutions are. Stick around after the interview to hear Kara and Nayeema discuss the ethics of stapling bread to trees. This episode was recorded live at the University of Virginia’s Karsh Institute for Democracy’s Democracy 360 event on October 17th. Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or find us on social media. We’re on Instagram/Threads as @karaswisher and @nayeemaraza Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.8	Hi everyone, from New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network. This is on
0:49.8	with Cara Swisher and I'm Cara Swisher. And I'm name Arata. Today we're going to
0:53.8	be talking about big text effect on democracy. Yeah. That was the topic of this
0:58.4	conversation with Alexis O'Hanian and Ben Roy, which was reported live last
1:02.0	week at an event by UVA's Cartian Institute for Democracy. How do you get
1:06.5	roped into it, Cara? Well, I know Evan Smith, who runs it, who's helped run it
1:11.1	with them. Evan Smith, previously of Texas Tribune fan. Yeah, he's been working
1:15.0	on it and a bunch of other people there. And Alexis O'Hanian and I have gone
1:19.1	back a long way and talked about this issue for, I would say, decades and
1:22.9	obviously Deb Roy from MIT, who's been studying this for a long time. And
1:26.7	obviously things have degenerated. So I thought it was a good time to do this.
1:30.9	Well, let's chat about our guest. The first one is Alexis O'Hanian. He's most
1:34.9	famous, of course, for being Serena Williams has been. No, he's not. I'm kidding.
1:39.9	He is a noted startup founder, most famously, for Reddit, which he co-founded
1:43.9	in the year 2005. And these days, he's mostly investing under 776
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