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Recode

Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us.

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You got a vaccine. Walgreens got your data.

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Why did Jack Dorsey buy Jay-Z’s failed music service?

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The problem for Paramount+ (and every other streamer)? Everyone already has Netflix.

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SPACs, the investment term you won’t stop hearing about, explained

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The union vote that could change Amazon forever

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Land of the Giants

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When Google bought YouTube, it went from being a company that helps users search the Internet, to a company that shapes the Internet itself. With 2 billion users, YouTube generates its own gravitational pull on society and culture worldwide. And as an open platform that allows anyone to upload videos, it's a force that even Google can't quite control.

  • Hosts: Shirin Ghaffary (@shiringhaffary) and Alex Kantrowitz (@kantrowitz)
  • Guest co-host: Peter Kafka (@peterkafka)
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Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem

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The race to become a Clubhouse influencer

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The key ingredient that could hold back vaccine manufacturing

How YouTube swallowed the world

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Twitter is tweaking its approach to vaccine misinformation

A Black Amazon manager is suing company executives in a discrimination and sexual harassment and assault case

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What comes after Zoom fatigue

It looks like we’re stuck with video chat. Is that such a bad thing?

Posting less, posting more, and tired of it all

What companies can do to speed up board diversity

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The real cost of Amazon

"It’s like I’m risking my life for a dollar" — what the struggle Amazon workers face during the pandemic says about the future of work in America.

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Why Facebook reversed its news ban in Australia

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Why some like Apple’s new privacy labels, despite their flaws

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Google is a tech giant now, but was that inevitable?

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Facebook’s news ban in Australia is draconian. But it might not be wrong.

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Democratic donor Laurene Powell Jobs is expanding her political operation with Joe Kennedy

New York is suing Amazon over pandemic labor conditions

How to avoid losing all your money on investing apps

India jails climate activist for supporting farmers’ protests

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Online scammers are rushing to exploit people desperate to get the Covid-19 vaccine

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America’s billionaire philanthropists gave away more during the pandemic. But there’s a catch.

How the Covid-19 pandemic broke Nextdoor

Inside Google’s transformation from a quirky tech startup into a global behemoth

Andrew Yang’s campaign is cutting ties with a fundraiser once accused of sexual misconduct