TWiT 774: The Mafia is Zooming - Big Tech and Racism, Trump and Biden Phished

This Week in Tech (Audio)

• Episode: TWiT 774: The Mafia is Zooming - Big Tech and Racism, Trump and Biden Phished
• Website: This Week in Tech (Audio)
• Feed URL: http://feeds.twit.tv/twit.xml
• Duration: 02:13:14
• Published: 2020-06-08 02:10

• Tim Cook and Satya Nadella speaking up on racism - what should Big Tech do?
• Amazon says they are against racism, but sells racist facial recognition tech to police
• Can tech improve policing?
• Social and Organizational barriers to change
• Should social networks fact-check Trump?
• James Bennet resigns as Opinion Editor of NYT after letting Tom Cotton post-inflammatory editorial
• YouTube is a bigger problem than Facebook and Twitter
• How do we fix Google, Facebook, and Twitter without losing more jobs? Creativity, transparency, and incentives
• Synthetic biology, synthetic marketplaces, synthetic people
• Reddit founder quits and asks to be replaced by a black person
• NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admits they were wrong about Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protest
• Minneapolis will dismantle their police department
• Zoom won't encrypt free tier so they can help the cops
• Russian GRU exploiting Exim Mail Transfer Agent
• Trump and Biden campaigns being phished by China and Iran
• Project Gutenberg is now illegal in Italy
• HBO Max will not apply to AT&T data caps, but you can't play it on Roku or Amazon devices

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Dylan Tweney, Wesley Faulkner, and Amy Webb

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