{"id":1259,"date":"2021-04-23T05:16:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T03:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/23\/the-social-networks-designed-to-tear-us-apart-podcasts-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2021-04-23T05:16:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T03:16:29","slug":"the-social-networks-designed-to-tear-us-apart-podcasts-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/23\/the-social-networks-designed-to-tear-us-apart-podcasts-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The social networks \u2018designed to tear us apart\u2019 \u2013 podcasts of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sudhir Breaks the Internet considers the ethical and practical dilemmas underpinning our online lives. Plus: Slow Burn returns, considering the events and aftermath of the Iraq war <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/sudhir-breaks-the-internet\/id1553942392\">Sudhir Breaks the Internet<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Sudhir Venkatesh boasts an impressive CV, having worked for the FBI, Facebook and Twitter. He is also a sociologist, meaning that he\u2019s able to look back at his time working with government and big tech, to examine the growth of online misinformation with an expert eye. Don\u2019t expect a fawning look at social media\u2019s huge ethical and practical dilemmas in this new Freakanomics podcast; his first episode, titled \u201cDesigned to Tear Us Apart\u201d, considers how division and hate have thrived on the platforms he worked for \u2013 and the inertia behind the scenes. <em>Hannah J Davies<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2021\/apr\/23\/the-social-networks-designed-to-tear-us-apart-podcasts-of-the-week\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cd50f0b5cf318e708752e20f756a5486763b8d71\/0_0_4106_2464\/master\/4106.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ec3e8fbeb1d27b0fed74ecdeded916cf\" title=\"The social networks \u2018designed to tear us apart\u2019 \u2013 podcasts of the week\" \/>Sudhir Breaks the Internet considers the ethical and practical dilemmas underpinning our online lives. Plus: Slow Burn returns, considering the events and aftermath of the Iraq war<br \/>\nSudhir Breaks the InternetSudhir Venkatesh boasts an impressive CV, having worked for the FBI, Facebook and Twitter. He is also a sociologist, meaning that he\u2019s able to look back at his time working with government and big tech, to examine the growth of online misinformation with an expert eye. Don\u2019t expect a fawning look at social media\u2019s huge ethical and practical dilemmas in this new Freakanomics podcast; his first episode, titled \u201cDesigned to Tear Us Apart\u201d, considers how division and hate have thrived on the platforms he worked for \u2013 and the inertia behind the scenes. Hannah J Davies Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudhir Breaks the Internet considers the ethical and practical dilemmas underpinning our online lives. Plus: Slow Burn returns, considering the events and aftermath of the Iraq war Sudhir Breaks the InternetSudhir Venkatesh boasts an impressive CV, having worked for the FBI, Facebook and Twitter. He is also a sociologist, meaning that he\u2019s able to look &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/23\/the-social-networks-designed-to-tear-us-apart-podcasts-of-the-week\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The social networks \u2018designed to tear us apart\u2019 \u2013 podcasts of the week<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}