What on earth has been going on with social media? Threads is a brand new app with 100 m users. Reddit's moderators have revolted and the site is still feeling the effects. And Twitter continues to set itself on fire regularly. Why is all this happening? Mike Masnick of Techdirt joins the show, and we discuss the most

Elon Musk has owned Twitter for less than a month, and the company is already in chaos.  Is Elon crazy, or crazy like a fox? Joining the show to discuss is Mike Masnick, founder of Techdirt.  Jeremiah and Mike discuss why content moderation is so difficult at scale, debate whether Mastodon can be a real Twitter replace

Techdirt's founder wants to give end users, not politicians and tech giants, more control over what we can say and see online.

All about section 230 of the Communications Decency Act -- in what Wired senior writer (and host of the Get Wired podcast) described as "one of the clearest-but-still-nuanced explainers I've heard - worth listening to".  So what does and doesn't it say? How does this law play out against broader questions and debates a

Should the government require tech companies to provide backdoors for their encrypted devices?  Techdirt founder Mike Masnick and PPI's Director of Technology Policy Alec Stapp join the show to discuss encryption.  We talk about how encryption works, the bills currently making their way through congress, whether or not

Mike Masnick joins Political Economy to discuss how technological progress will change the nature of work, while also discussing current content moderation practices on the internet. The post Mike Masnick: Exploring the future of work through science fiction appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.