Bots & Ballots

The networks that pushed fake news in 2016 didn't go away in 2018, but they did change. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Howard Dean on why the next Democratic nominee for president should be under 55 and how the party can catch up on technology. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michael Daniel talks about what Obama could have done to respond to Russia and about cyberwars bleeding into the real world See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jake Sullivan was senior advisor to Hillary Clinton's campaign and witnessed Russia's attempts to intervene in our election firsthand. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo, talks about the Obama administration's response to Putin's actions in the 2016 presidential election. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rep. Denny Heck, a member of the House intelligence committee, talks about the end of the Trump presidency. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Science fiction author and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow says Facebook helped Trump's campaign connect with tiny, toxic demographics. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Marc Fisher of the Washington Post talks about how technology and the president have super-charged conspiracies. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A conversation with Angie Drobnic Holan, Editor of PolitiFact, about how lies and misinformation can clog the conversation and keep out the real news and how Facebook and Google are helping fact-checkers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Adam Sharp, Twitter’s former head of news, says it's being left to companies to fight online propaganda. And Representative Derek Kilmer on the chances the Honest Ads Act will pass before the elections. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Samuel Woolley, Director of the Digital Intelligence (DigIntel) Lab, Institute for the Future, talks about bots — foreign and domestic — and how they are poisoning political conversation around the world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bots & Ballots from Yahoo News will launch June 20th, 2018! Look out for new episodes every Wednesday. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.