Is Google in an "ideological echo chamber"?

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Education, News, Society & Culture

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Matt, Ezra, and Sarah talk about the now-infamous Google memo, the Democrats' plan for prescription drug pricing, and a study on opioid prescriptions and medical schools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I don't hear you guys. Is everything okay?
0:02.4	Oh, I heard that.
0:03.4	Yeah.
0:03.9	Okay, well, it's close enough as long as somebody can.
0:20.5	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:23.9	I'm Matthew Glacias back from the wilds of Northern Maine,
0:27.8	joined by Ezra Klein and Sarah Cliff.
0:30.4	Sarah, I think you did a great job with the ad reads.
0:33.4	You thought my intro was okay?
0:34.9	The intro, you know, the intro is tough.
0:36.6	It's hard to nail outside now.
0:39.4	But the ads, it made me want to buy all the things.
0:42.7	Well, good. That's great.
0:43.8	So I will get to continue this podcast then if you buy all the things.
0:47.0	Yes, exactly. Everyone buy things.
0:49.7	Okay. Let's podcast.
0:51.1	Okay. So we got a good white paper, a good white paper, a good policy issue.
0:57.0	But we wanted to talk first about a sort of controversy that's been up in the news.
1:01.1	Sort of political though, a little less, less policy oriented.
1:05.0	But Google made waves first for this guy writing a manifesto and then for firing him for writing a manifesto.
1:13.4	So this is a somewhat complicated story.
1:16.7	I think I came to this late and it was one of these things we're trying to trace back what had happened was tricky.
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