5. Can Outside Pressure Change Silicon Valley?
How has activism evolved in our digital society? In this episode, Sudhir talks to Jade Magnus Ogunnaike about the intersection of big tech a...
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Sudhir Breaks the Internet
The Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh studies exclusive worlds by embedding himself — with a crack-selling gang, sex workers, the teenage children of billionaires, and most re...
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4. Meet the Brain Behind Facebook’s Oversight Board
Last week, the board upheld the ban of former President Donald Trump’s social media accounts. Sudhir talks to Noah Feldman, the constitution...
3. “Someone Needs to Save the World from Silicon Valley”
If the big social-media companies are unable or unwilling to make major changes from within, it may be up to outsiders to create better, hea...
2. The Garbage Can Model of Decision Making
What's it like to try and police millions of pieces of abusive content every day? Sudhir takes us inside Facebook, as he and his former coll...
1. Designed to Tear Us Apart
When online anger turned to offline violence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, the big social media companies responded by kicking some user...
Introducing “Sudhir Breaks the Internet”
Sudhir Venkatesh, a sociologist who has studied crack gangs, sex workers, and gun runners, suddenly found himself working at Facebook, and l...