Bloody Money and Blind Investors
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s If Then, Will Oremus and April Glaser talk about GDPR, Europe’s sweeping new online privacy legislation that took effect last Friday. They explain why it triggered an avalanche of emails to your inbox, and what it means for the tech industry.
The hosts are joined by John Carreyrou, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter with the Wall Street Journal. His new book, Bad Blood, chronicles his investigation into Theranos, the now-disgraced blood-testing startup, which sold faulty machines that may have put patients’ lives in danger. Carreyrou fills in some fascinating details in this bizarre story, and reflects on what it tells us about Silicon Valley—and whether it could happen again.
On ‘Tabs’ this week, Will digs into Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s attacks on the media and his idea to fix journalism by rating the credibility of individual journalists. April discusses the New York Times story about how Googlers’ quest to help stray cats has gone awry.
Don’t Close My Tabs
The Daily Beast: What It’s Like When Elon Musk’s Twitter Mob Comes After You
The New York Times: As Google Feeds Cats, Owl Lovers Cry Foul
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. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm April Glazer. |
| 0:10.8 | And I'm Will Oremus. |
| 0:23.3 | Okay, welcome to If Then. |
| 0:29.0 | We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. |
| 0:32.6 | We are recording this on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 29th. |
| 0:37.8 | On today's show, we'll talk about Europe's sweeping new online privacy rules, which went into effect last Friday, triggering an avalanche of emails to your inbox. |
| 0:42.3 | Then we'll be joined by John Kerry Rue, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter |
| 0:46.1 | with the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:47.4 | His new book, Bad Blood, chronicles his investigation to Theranos, the now disgraced blood-testing |
| 0:52.7 | startup, which sold faulty machines that potentially put people's lives in danger. We'll get the scoop from Carriereux on this bizarre story, and we'll talk about what it tells us about how Silicon Valley throws money around. And whether venture capitalists and investors are poised to make such an epic mistake again. And we'll close, we promise with don't close my tabs, our favorite stories from |
| 1:11.7 | the web this week. All right, April, how's it going this week? It's okay. It's summertime. How are you doing well? |
| 1:17.2 | I'm doing well, thanks. And I'm excited because we have a voice memo here from one of our listeners. |
| 1:22.6 | You know, we've been asking listeners to email us or send us a comment or a voice memo with some question about something |
| 1:28.2 | we talked about on the show. Well, we have one from Matthew in Texas who's responding to our |
| 1:33.4 | recent show in which we talked about the merger between AT&T and Time Warner and what the antitrust |
| 1:39.8 | ramifications of that might be. Let's go ahead and listen to Matthew's clip right now. |
| 1:44.7 | So I live in a rural part of South Texas, and the only internet provider is AT&T in my area. |
| 1:50.8 | I work online. I'm very computer-centric. A lot of what I do revolves around the internet. |
| 1:56.5 | So AT&T, often in my area, will have constant service outages or at times they do not meet my work needs. |
| 2:08.6 | In the extreme cases, they don't even have service at all. |
| 2:12.6 | So what I'm afraid of is that this AT&T merger will have absolutely no incentive they get better |
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