89up's Mike Harris: "Hiding in plain sight"

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: 89up's Mike Harris: "Hiding in plain sight"
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
• Feed URL: http://rss.acast.com/dannyinthevalley
• Duration: 00:26:14
• Published: 2018-10-26 05:01

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Mike Harris, founder of 89up, to talk about his work uncovering Russia’s election meddling in Brexit (2:25), the importance of Facebook groups in spreading misinformation (4:10), making an enemy of Russia (7:00), the government’s impending ‘fake news’ report (8:10), the “Mainstream Network” (9:20), Facebook’s complicity in anonymity (14:15), the problem with the master algorithm (17:30), how to fix it (19:45), and the business of chaos (22:35)

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