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The Black List’s Franklin Leonard says greed can combat Hollywood’s bias

“What demographic group you’re a part of has no direct correlation with your talent.”

By Devin Nadi

When Pinterest users started searching for vaccines, CEO Ben Silbermann pulled all medical information from the platform

“We couldn’t ensure that we were giving people great information.”

By Devin Nadi

Edward Snowden says Facebook is just as untrustworthy as the NSA

By Shirin Ghaffary

Former Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn’s next move: investing in a phone secure enough for the president

By Kara Swisher

Three big ideas for tech regulation from Senator Mark Warner

By Eric Johnson

From Jeffrey Epstein to Trump’s Ukraine phone call, whistleblowers have never been this important, says lawyer who represented MIT Media Lab whistleblower

By Eric Johnson

To bring “prestige” back to education, make teachers tax-exempt, says Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman

By Eric Johnson

Big Tech is “scary” because it wants to be the solution to everything, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says

By Eric Johnson

The Wing wants to fight gender bias in hiring by helping its members hire each other

By Eric Johnson

Millions of young people will “storm the Bastille” if we don’t fix income inequality, 2020 candidate Marianne Williamson says

By Eric Johnson

Every tech company should “work together and fix things,” says Microsoft President Brad Smith

By Eric Johnson

Workers need to be part of the conversation about UBI, says “Beaten Down, Worked Up” author Steve Greenhouse

By Eric Johnson

CEOs may promise to be ethical, but most of them do the bare minimum, says The Enlightened Capitalists author James O’Toole

By Eric Johnson

Social media is the perfect petri dish for bias. The solution is for tech companies to slow us down.

By Eric Johnson

Scooters may be a better business than Uber or Lyft, says Lime president Joe Kraus

By Eric Johnson

Every telecom company can be hacked and “everybody should be suspect,” Huawei USA’s chief security officer says

By Eric Johnson

The wrong US response to Russia and China may trigger a “new Cold War,” warns Stanford University’s Larry Diamond

By Eric Johnson

Rep. Lauren Underwood says supporting impeachment would “look like a power grab” to her swing district

By Eric Johnson

“The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook maker Pearson

By Eric Johnson

Cambridge Analytica made “ethical mistakes” because it was too focused on regulation, former COO says

By Eric Johnson

Megan Rapinoe still isn’t going to the White House, even if Trump invites her

By Eric Johnson

Will Reddit un-quarantine its biggest pro-Trump community? CEO Steve Huffman isn’t holding his breath.

By Eric Johnson

In 10 years, every “relevant” company will be a tech company, Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake says

By Eric Johnson

“We’re not ready” for foreign election interference in 2020, says Rep. Adam Schiff

By Eric Johnson

Why 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang doesn’t want to break up Google

By Eric Johnson

Presidential candidate Michael Bennet is way behind in the polls. But he believes he can win the nomination — and beat Trump.

By Eric Johnson

Mayor Pete Buttigieg talks about systemic racism, regulating tech, and the divided Democratic Party on Recode Decode

By Eric Johnson

Pete Buttigieg says Americans should have the right to hide personal details from the internet

By Eric Johnson

Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s first novel is about divorce in the age of Tinder

By Eric Johnson

Journalist Carole Cadwalladr has a question for tech workers: Are you okay with your bosses enabling “techno-fascism”?

By Eric Johnson

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon: the Code Conference interview (transcript)

By Eric Johnson

Rockefeller Foundation president Raj Shah: the Code Conference interview (transcript)

By Eric Johnson

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian: the Code Conference interview (transcript)

By Eric Johnson

Twitter’s Kayvon Beykpour and Vijaya Gadde: the Code Conference interview

By Eric Johnson

The problem with tech people who want to solve problems

By Eric Johnson

If the Senate won’t convict Trump, “Why is that bad for the Democrats?” asks the Intercept’s Mehdi Hasan

By Eric Johnson

Russia and China are waging a “shadow war” against the US, and the battlefields will be AI and space, CNN’s Jim Sciutto says

By Eric Johnson

Silicon Valley needs new investors if it wants to close the gender gap, Girls Who Code CEO Reshma Saujani says

By Eric Johnson

The decline of trust in science “terrifies” former MIT president Susan Hockfield

By Eric Johnson

Because of AI, the value of a computer science degree will “diminish over time,” says investor Mark Cuban

By Eric Johnson

We should opt into data tracking, not out of it, says DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg

By Eric Johnson

Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says social media will get better ... eventually

By Eric Johnson

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