The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta, doesnāt (just) have a scam problemāwith 10 percent of its revenue coming from scam ads, and a third of all successful scams in America using a Meta platform at some point, itās more an interdependence with scammers.
Guest: Jeff Horwitz, tech reporter for Reuters.
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They donāt cut cleanly along party lines, but data centers, and where they get built, became an election issue in Virginia. With so many more data centers to build, are we looking at a new trend?Ā
Guest: Margaret Barthel, reporter covering northern Virginia for WAMU.Ā
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Podcast production by Evan Campbell, and Patrick Fort.
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What Next | Wikipedia Enters the Culture Wars
Why would Elon Musk attempt to replace Wikipediaāwhich is already quite futuristic, utopian and accurateāwith a faulty, hallucinatory A.I.-powered āGrokipediaā? Well, see, he called it āWokepediaā¦ā
Guest: Stephen Harrison, writer, tech lawyer, author of āWhy Editing Wikipedia Is Becoming More Dangerousā for Slate and The Editors, a novel about Wikipedia.
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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.
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ICYMI | Who TF Is Grammy-Nominated Alex Warren?
On todayās episode host Kate Lindsay is joined by Yahoo News senior entertainment writer, Kelsey Weekman, to answer the question on everyoneās lips: Who is Alex Warren and why is every store playing his music? The Hype House OG is nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammys, and is part of a growing wave of musicians making āsecular praise music.ā Where did Alex Warren come from, and how did he pull off a musical career pivot when so many other TikTokkers failed?Ā
This podcast is produced by Daisy Rosario, Vic Whitley-Berry, and Kate Lindsay.
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