Best of 2018
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🗓️ 2 January 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus introduce some of their favorite interviews from 2018. We have highlights from our conversations with journalist Taylor Lorenz about teen YouTube stars, former head of Facebook’s Newsfeed Adam Mosseri about real-world violence in places like Myanmar, the founder of Data for Black Lives Yeshimabeit Milner on how tech companies might share their data for social justice efforts, author Naomi Klein on cryptocurrency in Puerto Rico following the deadly Hurricane Maria, Senator Mark Warner on how the government might actually regulate the big tech companies, and Paige Panter, a volunteer with the Tech Workers Coalition on how a broad coalition of tech workers are fighting for change.
1:21 - Interview with Taylor Lorenz 7:57 - Interview with Yeshimabeit Milner 15:49 - Interview with Adam Mosseri 24:09 - Interview with Naomi Klein 30:27 - Interview with Senator Mark Warner 38:30 - Interview with Paige Panter
Podcast production by Max Jacobs
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Will Aramis. |
| 0:15.6 | And I'm April Glazer. |
| 0:22.7 | Hey everyone. Welcome to If Then. |
| 0:28.3 | We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tents of partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. |
| 0:31.2 | Today, we have a special show for you. |
| 0:33.1 | It's our Best of 2018 show. |
| 0:38.6 | Take a look back at some of our favorite interviews from what has been a very eventful year in technology. |
| 0:46.1 | Oh my gosh, such an eventful year that the ground is moving under our feet and my head is spitting and the sky is falling. |
| 0:56.5 | But we're going to talk about everything from misinformation on the big social media platforms coming from malicious foreign state actors, the Kremlin linked internet research agency. |
| 0:58.9 | We're going to talk about Cambridge Analytica. |
| 1:01.1 | We're going to talk about racial justice. |
| 1:05.0 | We're going to talk about tech workers fighting back within their own companies. |
| 1:10.2 | Puerto Rico and Bitcoin, Senator Mark Warner, all the best hits. |
| 1:11.1 | Hit after hit. That's all coming best hits, hit after hit. |
| 1:13.7 | That's all coming up on today's if then. |
| 1:21.0 | This is a clip from our interview with Taylor Lorenz. |
| 1:26.0 | This was on January 23rd, at which time she was a culture and tech reporter for The Daily Beast. |
| 1:29.2 | She was focusing on the subculture of teen YouTube stars. |
| 1:31.7 | Lorenz is now a writer for the Atlantic. |
| 1:39.3 | You mentioned that the YouTube stars of today are different in important ways from teen stars of the past. |
| 1:41.7 | So one that you've written a lot about is Logan Paul. |
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