Re-Up: Senator Mark Warner
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🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, April Glaser revisits an interview with Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee who released a policy paper proposing possible regulations for U.S. social media and technology companies. In the interview, April and her former co-host Will Oremus talk to Senator Warner about what worries him most about the largely unregulated tech industry, which can’t seem to keep our data private and stop muddying our elections. They also ask him what he thinks congress can do to rein in these companies and why lawmakers haven’t been quick to act.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to If Then, the show about how technology is changing our lives and our future. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm April Glazer. |
| 0:13.3 | Hey everyone, welcome to If Then. |
| 0:15.3 | We're coming to you from Slate and Future Tense, a partnership between Slate, Arizona State University, and New America. We are recording |
| 0:22.0 | this on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 4th. This week, we're re-airing one of our favorite |
| 0:27.6 | interviews from last year. It's with Senator Mark Warner from Virginia, who currently serves as the |
| 0:33.4 | vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is continuing its investigation into Russian |
| 0:38.3 | interference in the 2016 election. Here, he explores in-depth his thoughts on how Congress might |
| 0:44.5 | approach regulating large technology platforms, like Google and Facebook, which were instrumentalized |
| 0:50.0 | by Russian trolls in a sprawling attempt to sway the 2016 election. |
| 1:05.2 | We thought now would be a good time to revisit this interview in light of Monday's news that the House Judiciary Subcommittee on antitrust is launching an investigation into Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. |
| 1:11.4 | This news came on top of reports that the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are divvying up how they approach potential antitrust inquiries into the four companies. Beyond issues of competition, |
| 1:17.5 | Senator Warner digs into why privacy regulation is important, curbing disinformation, and how |
| 1:22.9 | Congress might get it all wrong. Also keep in mind that we recorded this on October 16th in 2018. |
| 1:29.6 | So you'll hear the voice of my former co-host, Will Oremus. We hope you enjoy. |
| 1:35.6 | The last several years have revised how Americans see the massive tech platforms that monopolize |
| 1:40.4 | the time we spend online. There's the Russian abetted role played by social media during the |
| 1:45.0 | incredibly muddled 2016 election, whose aftermath has forced executives from Facebook, Twitter, |
| 1:50.0 | and Google to repeatedly explain to Congress what they knew about Kremlin-linked content |
| 1:54.1 | designed to wide indivisions in American life and why they didn't do more to stop it. |
| 1:58.5 | There's our deepening understanding of how these companies targeted advertising systems can lead to discrimination by age, race, gender, and more. And there |
| 2:06.2 | are the very real privacy concerns that they have forced us to confront as well, from the Cambridge |
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