Bots & Ballots
Technology Podcasts
In the digital era, information and the social media platforms used to spread it have become weapons of choice for those seeking to short circuit American democracy. Yahoo News' new weekly podcast Bots & Ballots explores the intersection of politics and technology as told by those in Washington, DC, and Silicon Valley trying to prevent a repeat of the infiltration of the 2016 presidential election.
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Location:
United States
Description:
In the digital era, information and the social media platforms used to spread it have become weapons of choice for those seeking to short circuit American democracy. Yahoo News' new weekly podcast Bots & Ballots explores the intersection of politics and technology as told by those in Washington, DC, and Silicon Valley trying to prevent a repeat of the infiltration of the 2016 presidential election. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Twitter:
@yahoonews
Language:
English
Contact:
3104302037
Website:
http://www.yahoo.com/news
Email:
lisamosh@oath.com
Episodes
Jonathon Morgan on how Russian disinformation worked in 2018
11/20/2018
The networks that pushed fake news in 2016 didn't go away in 2018, but they did change.
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Duration:00:22:40
Howard Dean on 2020 and tech in politics
11/13/2018
Howard Dean on why the next Democratic nominee for president should be under 55 and how the party can catch up on technology.
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Duration:00:19:58
Will your vote count in 2018? I hope so.
11/6/2018
Our elections aren't secure, but that's not the worst news. There's also an effort to make us doubt the results of our own elections.
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Duration:00:19:44
Joe Hall on why phone voting is a terrible idea and why secrets only last 20 years
10/30/2018
Joe Hall is the Chief Technologist at Center for Democracy & Technology, an organization that promotes free expression online, privacy and tries to put controls on government surveillance.
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Duration:00:25:50
Michael Daniel, Obama's cybersecurity head: Cyberwar could take down our power grid
10/23/2018
Michael Daniel talks about what Obama could have done to respond to Russia and about cyberwars bleeding into the real world
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Duration:00:20:33
Bill Browder on Rand Paul, Dana Rohrabacher and Russia
10/16/2018
Bill Browder made billions in post-Soviet Russia. Then his lawyer was murdered and he became an activist. The man behind the Magnitsky Act talks Putin, Donald Trump and Congress.
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Duration:00:26:37
Scott Adams, Dilbert cartoonist, on Trump and why facts don't matter
10/9/2018
"Donald Trump will be the last human president," Scott Adams Tweeted recently. The Dilbert cartoonist talks about Google, Facebook and Twitter and why he thinks the companies are too liberal.
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Duration:00:24:01
Judd Legum says conservatives bullying Facebook and Twitter
10/2/2018
Do conservatives have legitimate complaints about the social networks or are they merely gaming the refs by pretending they do? A fact-check of a Think Progress article has liberals crying foul.
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Duration:00:22:40
Uber's fixer Bradley Tusk on the wave of regulation coming for tech
9/25/2018
Bradley Tusk ran Michael Bloomberg's campaign, he also busted through regulation for tech companies like FanDuel and Uber. Tusk talks about fixing politics with cell phone votes and regulation.
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Duration:00:27:20
Jake Sullivan recounts being in the Clinton campaign as it blindsided by the Russian assault
9/18/2018
Jake Sullivan was senior advisor to Hillary Clinton's campaign and witnessed Russia's attempts to intervene in our election firsthand.
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Duration:00:19:39
Michael Isikoff on why Obama didn't stop Russian meddling in 2016
9/11/2018
Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo, talks about the Obama administration's response to Putin's actions in the 2016 presidential election.
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Duration:00:24:06
Rep. Denny Heck says Trump collusion with Russia ‘is well-established’
9/4/2018
Rep. Denny Heck, a member of the House intelligence committee, talks about the end of the Trump presidency.
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Duration:00:18:31
Kim Zetter on hacking Georgia election and lawyer David Cross on stopping it
8/28/2018
Kim Zetter, author of "Countdown to Zero Day," discusses a case of a missing server in Georgia's election system and David Cross, a lawyer with Morrison & Foerster, talks about a lawsuit against the state to get Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp to adopt paper ballots.
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Duration:00:23:07
Alexander Malkevich is the head of USAReally and says he's not a troll
8/22/2018
Alexander Malkevich, the editor of USA Really, a website with ties to the Russian groups indicted by Robert Mueller, says his website isn't fake news.
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Duration:00:17:28
Cory Doctorow on how Facebook's 'surveillance system' swung the election
8/14/2018
Science fiction author and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow says Facebook helped Trump's campaign connect with tiny, toxic demographics.
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Duration:00:28:51
Washington Post editor Marc Fisher on the story of QAnon
8/7/2018
Marc Fisher of the Washington Post talks about how technology and the president have super-charged conspiracies.
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Duration:00:20:15
FBI agent Clint Watts on how Russia worked to get Trump elected
7/31/2018
Clint Watts is a former FBI officer who watched Russia's disinformation campaign for the 2016 election develop. He talks about what we can expect for 2018.
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Duration:00:30:34
Author Adam Fisher on the complex politics of Silicon Valley
7/24/2018
Adam Fisher, author of "Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley, As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom," talks about the libertarian roots of tech and how the Valley ended up (nearly) all-in on Clinton in 2016.
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Duration:00:17:28
Ex-NSA official Oren Falkowitz: Russian hack of DNC was 'assembly line operation'
7/17/2018
Oren Falkowitz, CEO of Area 1 Security and a former NSA official, walks through the DNC hack and concludes it wasn't novel in its sophistication.
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Duration:00:19:39
Barbara Simons on why our voting system isn't safe
7/10/2018
Barbara Simons is a computer scientist—and she doesn't trust our voting computers. States without paper ballots could be hacked without us ever knowing. And we do know that Russia probed our defenses in 2016.
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Duration:00:15:14