Recode Decode: (Bonus) How To Save the 2020 Election

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

If you like Recode Decode, we think you'll also like Function with Anil Dash. Here's a recent episode about stopping fake news ahead of the 2020 US elections. Are social networks downplaying their complicity in the problem that is “fake news?” Anil talks to Fadi Quran of the people powered social advocacy group, Avaaz, about how tech is used to target groups of people and spread disinformation that affects our elections, relationships, and social justice movements. Together they discuss insidious nature of disinformation and misinformation, meet its victims, and go over solutions. Listen closely for the steps that platforms can take right now to stem the tide of fake news and fake accounts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.0	Hi, it's Kara.
0:36.0	We're taking this week off for the holidays, but we have a special bonus episode for you today.
0:40.0	It's an episode of Function with the Neil Dash, which is another show from the Vox Media Podcast Empire.
0:46.0	And Neil is the CEO of Glitch, and you've heard him on this podcast, Reco Decode. Talk about that.
0:51.0	But in this show Function, he talks to developers, designers, and culture experts
0:55.0	to understand the way his tech is changing culture and what it means for us.
0:59.0	I think you'll really enjoy it, so let's take a listen.
1:12.0	Welcome to Function. I'm Neil Dash.
1:15.0	All season long, we've been talking about trust on the Internet.
1:19.0	Whether we've got it and how it gets broken.
1:22.0	And I'm super interested in that topic because the Internet and social media are so embedded in our lives.
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