5. Can Outside Pressure Change Silicon Valley...

Last week, the board upheld the ban of former President Donald Trump’s social media accounts. Sudhir talks to Noah Feldman, the constitutional law scholar who helped design this “supreme court” for content moderation. They reveal the inside story of how the idea came about, how t ...  Show more

If the big social-media companies are unable or unwilling to make major changes from within, it may be up to outsiders to create better, healthier digital communities. Whether it’s smaller platforms for like-minded people, a publicly owned social network, self-policing by user gr ...  Show more

The sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh spent years studying crack dealers, sex workers, and the offspring of billionaires. Then he wandered into an even stranger world: social media. He spent the past five years at Facebook and Twitter. Now that he’s back in the real world, he’s her ...

Vili Lehdonvirta discusses his book "<a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Empires-Digital-Platforms-Overtaking/dp/0262047225/ref=sr_1_1?crid=31CR4DWT5H8MK&keywords=Vili+Lehdonvirta&qid=1662741538&sprefix=vili+lehdonvirta%2Caps%2C406&sr=8-1" target="_blan ...

"Where the Internet Lives" is a new podcast about the unseen world of data centers. In this series, we’ll go inside a data center and learn how the machines actually work. We’ll hear about the early days of Google’s first data center designs — and how they set the stage for today ...  Show more

What is the internet doing to us? The Times tech columnist Kevin Roose discovers what happens when our lives move online. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/ac ...  Show more