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Our online life is real life. We walk, talk, work, LOL and even love on the Internet – but we don’t always treat it like real life. Host Veronica Belmont explores this disconnect with storie...
We’re excited to share that Mozilla's IRL podcast is a Shorty Awards finalist in the Science and Technology Podcast category! If you enjoy I...
From Hollywood to Hip Hop, artists are negotiating new boundaries of consent for use of AI in the creative industries. Bridget Todd speaks t...
Big tech’s power over language, means power over people. Bridget Todd talks to AI community leaders paving the way for open voice tech in th...
Why does it so often feel like we’re part of a mass AI experiment? What is the responsible way to test new technologies? Bridget Todd explor...
They’re the essential workers of AI — yet mostly invisible and exploited. Does it have to be this way? Bridget Todd talks to data workers an...
Are today’s large language models too hot to handle? Bridget Todd digs into the risks and rewards of open sourcing the tech that makes ChatG...
This season, IRL host Bridget Todd meets people who are balancing the upsides of artificial intelligence with the downsides that are coming...
Life, death and data. AI’s capacity to support research on human health is well documented. But so are the harms of biased datasets and misd...
Murky political groups are exploiting social media systems to spread disinformation. With important elections taking place around the world...
An aerial picture can tell a thousand stories. But who gets to tell them? From above the clouds, our world is surveilled and datafied. Those...
Gig workers around the world report directly to algorithms in precarious jobs created by secretive corporations. We take you to the streets...
Where should tech builders draw the line on AI for military or surveillance? Just because it can be built, doesn’t mean it should be. At wha...
AI is everywhere now. It’s part of healthcare, social media, maps, and even killer robots. But who has power over AI? And who is shifting th...
Every day, our data hits the market when we sign online. It’s for sale, and we’re left to wonder if tech companies will ever choose to prote...
The word “regulation" gets tossed around a lot. And it’s often aimed at the internet’s Big Tech companies. Some worry that the size of these...
‘5G’ is a new buzzword floating around every corner of the internet. But what exactly is this hyped-up cellular network, often referred to a...
There's a movement building within tech. Workers are demanding higher standards from their companies — and because of their unique skills an...
Manoush Zomorodi explores the surprising environmental impact of the internet in this episode of IRL. Because while it’s easy to think of th...
Part of celebrating democracy is questioning what influences it. In this episode of IRL, we look at how the internet influences us, our vote...
Privacy policies: most apps and websites have them, buried away somewhere. These legal documents explain how the company collects, uses, and...
Season 4 of ZigZag is about examining the current culture of business and work, figuring out what needs to change, and experimenting with ne...
All the things we love on the internet — from websites that give us information to services that connect us — are made stronger when their c...
Some people believe that decentralization is the inevitable future of the web. They believe that internet users will start to demand more pr...
In her new book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Harvard Business School’s Shoshana Zuboff argues that tech companies — like Google and...
What, if anything, should be banned from online media? And who should review violent and explicit content, in order to decide if it’s okay f...
TL;DR: We have access to more things to read than ever before. Too much, in fact. Our reading habits have shifted. We skim a lot. We look fo...
Look, we agree with you: passwords are the worst. But you know what else is the worst? Someone hacking your account, or big security breache...
When you shop, your data may be the most valuable thing for sale. This isn’t just true online — your data follows you into brick and mortar...
Can ‘ethical tech’ be a thing? We think so. Season 4 of Mozilla’s IRL podcast will explore all the ways tech can have a more positive influe...
The 2016 U.S. presidential election blew up our ideas about influence campaigns in the age of screens. Two years later, Veronica Belmont and...
Today’s teens are the first humans who have spent their entire lives online. Join Veronica Belmont and Manoush Zomorodi as they explore what...
It’s a problem when tribalism divides us, online or in real life. Join Veronica Belmont and Franchesca Ramsey as they meet the people workin...
:'-) Ever wonder why emoticons exist? They popped up in the 1980s to make online connections feel a little less digital and a little more pe...
There’s a new currency in town (and no, we’re not talking about Bitcoin). We’re talking about attention. In this episode of IRL, Veronica Be...
One of the most successful recruitment tools the U.S. Army ever made was…a video game? Sometimes without even knowing it, gaming elements in...
We’re told from a young age to “accept the things we cannot change.” But should this be the case online as well? We click “Accept” every day...
In Season 3 of IRL, we're exploring the bargains we make online every day, and how we might approach striking better deals with the powers t...
From campaign bots to conspiracy videos, it’s harder than ever to discover the truth online. In conversation with The New York Times’ Sheera...
We’ve long heard that the ways the web is tailored for each user—how we search, what we’re shown, who we read and follow— reinforces walls b...
From Google search to Facebook news, algorithms shape our online experience. But like us, algorithms are flawed. Programmers write cultural...
On the Internet no one knows you’re a dog, as the old joke goes. But does anonymity truly exist on the web anymore? And when it’s taken from...
From Snapchat filters to Google’s art selfies, biometric technology plays a growing role in our everyday lives. What do we actually give up...
What does it mean to grow up online? Veronica Belmont investigates how the www is changing us: our personalities, our bodies, and our brains...
Most website visitors aren’t human. They’re bots. And these automated accounts are having serious, real-world impact; from the 2016 election...
The battle for the open Internet isn’t over. In the days leading up to the FCC’s net neutrality vote, we investigate what’s next in the figh...
In this bonus episode, we check in on some of Season One’s stories and see how they’ve evolved. Activist Amanda Werner talks about their tur...
In our final episode of season 1, we break from our usual format to host a big conversation. Recent events like the Charlottesville, VA rall...
What is life like without fast Internet, and how does life change once a person has it? Should Internet access be a right, rather than a lux...
We react against the idea of surveillance, but it turns out that we’ve invited it into our homes through devices like digital assistants, co...
Trolls. You'll find them in every corner of the Internet. During this episode, explore the landscape of trolling online, its impact on indiv...