Google and Meta Are a Threat to Journalism
On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Matt Pearce on Silicon Valleys threat to media.
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Google and Meta Are A Threat to Journalism w/ Matt Pearce | Tech Won't Save Us
On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Matt Pearce to discuss how Google sidestepped two California bills aimed at funding journalism and how major tech companies are transforming the web to make hyperlinks less relevant.
Matt Pearce is the President of Media Guild of the West and a former reporter at the Los Angeles Times.
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In this photo illustration, the Meta logo is seen displayed on a mobile phone screen with Google logo in the background.
(Idrees Abbas / AP Photos)On this episode of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast, we’re joined by Matt Pearce to discuss how Google sidestepped two California bills aimed at funding journalism and how major tech companies are transforming the Web to make hyperlinks less relevant.
Matt Pearce is the president of Media Guild of the West and a former reporter at the Los Angeles Times.
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AI Hype Enters Its Geopolitics Era w/ Timnit Gebru | Tech Won't Save Us
Paris Marx is joined by Timnit Gebru to discuss where the AI industry stands in 2025 as AI increasingly becomes a geopolitical football even as the big promises made by AI companies fail to materialize.
Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed AI Research Institute.
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