Recode Decode: How social media bots could tank your stock price

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Zignal Labs CEO Josh Ginsberg talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the “massive amounts of bot activity” that his media intelligence company has started detecting on social media. In everything from political elections to the debates over Roseanne Barr and Samantha Bee’s controversial statements, bots are insinuating themselves into the discourse, and provoking humans into being more outraged. Sometimes the goal is just to sow discord, Ginsberg says, but other times there are clear financial incentives to targeting certain companies. He talks about what businesses and regular people can do to better gird themselves against these bot attacks and predicts how a technology called “deepfakes” could make the problem worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.2	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large of RECode.
0:42.7	You may know me as the Life Like Robot that replaced the real Cara Swisher three years ago.
0:46.8	Oops, I shouldn't have said that.
0:48.0	But in my spare time, I talked tech and you're listening to RECode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:53.6	Today in the red chair is Josh Ginsburg, the CEO and co-founder of Zignal Labs.
0:58.7	It's a media intelligence company that helps its consumers see what people are saying
1:02.2	and what stories are emerging from across the internet.
1:04.9	He previously worked in politics and public affairs directing campaigns for Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mitt Romney
1:10.3	and working on the strategy department of the Republican National Committee.
1:13.4	Josh, welcome to RECode Decode. There's so much to talk about.
1:16.5	Thank you so much for having me.
1:17.7	Okay, we have also some information about some new products you're doing.
1:20.9	Let's go to your background a little bit.
1:22.3	I like people to know how people got.
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