Dex Hunter-Torricke: Translating the Titans of Tech

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Trevor sits down with author and strategist Dex Hunter-Torricke, who has spent years behind the scenes with some of the most powerful people in tech, including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Eric Schmidt, and has seen influence move from institutions into the hands of a few companies and the people running them. Together, they explore what that shift feels like from the inside, how much power is concentrated at the top, accountability and the lack of it, and what it means when the people shaping the future are also writing the rules as they go.

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0:00.0	The verdict is in that landmark social media addiction trial meta and YouTube found liable
0:06.1	for a product that harms the very children who use it.
0:09.1	Big tech, your gig is over.
0:11.8	They do it by design.
0:13.4	They're trying to keep us all scrolling.
0:15.1	It's bad for us.
0:16.1	It's really bad for kids.
0:17.6	I'll tell you this.
0:18.8	If the jury had returned to know, the champagne corks would
0:22.0	be popping in the boardrooms of Google and Meta.
0:25.3	And for parents, we now know that they were manipulating our children for profits.
0:30.6	Every kid with a cell phone that with any device, with a camera and connection to the internet is in danger.
0:44.2	This is What Now with Trevor Noah.
0:58.2	How do I pronounce your name, by the way?
1:00.5	Dex and then Hunter Tauric.
1:01.5	Oh, Torek?
1:01.8	Yeah. So the E, no, it's not a...
1:03.6	Yeah, yeah.
1:04.2	Okay.
1:05.5	Where's the last name from?
1:06.6	Scottish.
1:07.6	Weirdly...
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