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WIRED Politics Lab

WIRED Politics Lab


WIRED Politics Lab

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Length:
58 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Description

Politics has never been stranger – or more online. Each week on WIRED Politics Lab, our reporters guide you through the exciting, challenging and sometimes entertaining vortex of internet extremism, conspiracies, and disinformation. Expect in-depth analysis and conversations based on facts and research. Plus, we’ll give you information you can actually use to lift the fog of disinformation we find ourselves in today.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 58 episodes

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Farewell HANF, Hello Gadget Lab

Misinformation lives everywhere. False accounts of events, doctored photos, and purpose...

42 minutes
Oct 25, 2023

A Very Online Government

Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to the Chief Intelligence Officer of Estonia, Lu...

32 minutes
Oct 18, 2023

Some People Still Believe in Crypto

Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to Michael Casey, Chief Content Officer of the c...

37 minutes
Oct 11, 2023

How to Be Extremely Online and Influence People

Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to journalist Taylor Lorenz about her new book E...

33 minutes
Oct 04, 2023

Introducing: Critics at Large - The Myth Making of Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s presence in our lives is inescapable: his cars roam our streets, his satell...

12 minutes
Sep 29, 2023

College Is Broken. We Can Fix It.

Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to education journalist and author of The Inequa...

33 minutes
Sep 20, 2023

Get In, We're Taking Back the Internet

Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to Cory Doctorow, a writer, internet activist an...

33 minutes
Sep 13, 2023

Learning to Let Go (of the Wheel)

Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to Chris Urmson, CEO of the self-driving truck c...

30 minutes
Sep 06, 2023

RERUN: Don't Worry. It Gets Worse.

Gideon and Lauren talk to Noah Raford, a futurist. Raford spent nearly 15 years working...

33 minutes
Aug 30, 2023

Maybe You Should Just Join a Commune

Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to Kristen Ghodsee, a professor at the Universit...

32 minutes
Aug 23, 2023