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On If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus discuss recent tech news and take a deeper dive into this week’s congressional hearings with the leading social media companies about Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Then the hosts are joined by former Facebook product manager and author of Chaos Monkeys, Antonio García Martínez, to talk about the role of these powerful tech companies, given what we now know about what happened in the run-up to the presidential election.
Other items discussed in the show:
- New York Times: How to Fix Facebook? We Asked 9 Experts.
- Wired: The Solution to Facebook Overload Isn’t More Facebook
- Slate: Scoble Isn’t Sorry
If Then’s “Don’t Close My Tabs” recommendations:
- Wall Street Journal: Russian-Backed Facebook Accounts Organized Events on All Sides of Polarizing Issues
- New York Times: So This Happened in Our Comments Section Today
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Podcast production by Max Jacobs.
If Then is presented by Slate and Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, New America, and Slate. Future Tense explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy, and culture. To read more, follow us on Twitter and sign up for our weekly newsletter.
