The This Should be Free Edition

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🗓️ 9 March 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, Katherine Maher, Executive Director of Wikimedia, joins Emily, Felix, and Anna to discuss the information spectrum: from Wikipedia and academic journals to Zuckerberg’s pivot to privacy. Medium: Elizabeth Warren: Here’s How We Can Break Up Big Tech Nature: Huge US university cancels subscription with Elsevier Facebook: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking In the Slate Plus segment: the way Wikipedia is used by for-profit companies. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas,@EmilyRPeck, @krmaher Podcast production by Max Jacobs. Listen to Slate Money via Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the This Should Be Free edition of Slate Money, your guide to the
0:18.0	Business and Finance News of the Week. We are a free podcast. You can get us anywhere that good podcasts have found, but we are not totally
0:27.9	independent and free in a way that Wikipedia is, because Wikipedia doesn't even have ads.
0:33.3	I'm afraid we do have ads.
0:34.9	So that's the difference between us and Wikipedia.
0:37.0	We are going to have a deep dive into exactly how
0:40.6	Wikipedia works and what it does with
0:43.7	Catherine Mar.
0:44.9	Great to be here.
0:46.0	Catherine Mar is in for your offer, you just got off a plane from somewhere,
0:49.4	you're about to get on a plane to somewhere else but in between planes
0:53.0	cappers made it to Brooklyn, New York to record this is going to be an
0:56.3	awesome episode of slate money all about the information economy
1:00.1	we're going to talk about Wikipedia obviously we We are also going to be talking about the
1:03.4	anti-Wicopedia, which is El Severe, which is this big Dutch company that makes a whole bunch of
1:08.4	money off research that was all funded by taxpayers and how dare they and we are going to talk about
1:15.9	crypto wars which is the inevitable consequence of the Facebook pivot to privacy. Do we believe that Facebook is going to pivot to
1:26.3	privacy? Emily is shaking her head. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. No, no. No. No, no.
1:32.4	So, and I should make sure that we introduce everyone else.
1:35.0	Yes, yes, yes, yes. I am Felix Ammon of Agios. Emily Peck is from Huffington Post.
1:39.0	Huffington Post. And Anna Shimansky is...
1:42.0	I'm Anna Shimansky. It's just Anna Shimmanski.
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