Podcast / Tech Won’t Save Us / Jun 26, 2025

Chatbots Are Repeating Social Media’s Harms

On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Nitasha Tiku on AI companies, user engagement, and social media.

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Chatbots Are Repeating Social Media’s Harms | Tech Won’t Save Us
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On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Nitasha Tiku to discuss how AI companies are preying on users to drive engagement and how that’s repeating many of the problems we’re belatedly trying to address with social media companies at an accelerated pace.

Nitasha Tiku is a technology reporter at the Washington Post.

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Young people look at their phones in the City of London, the capital’s financial district, on 30th May 2025, in London, England.

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On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, I’m joined by Nitasha Tiku to discuss how AI companies are preying on users to drive engagement and how that’s repeating many of the problems we’re belatedly trying to address with social media companies at an accelerated pace.

Nitasha Tiku is a technology reporter at The Washington Post.

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How the US Weaponizes Technology in the Middle East | Tech Won’t Save Us
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Paris Marx is joined by Laleh Khalili to discuss how the United States uses its control of key technologies to shift global power dynamics, and how that specifically plays out in the Middle East.

Laleh Khalili is Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter and author of the forthcoming book Extractive Capitalism.

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Paris Marx

Paris Marx is a tech critic and host of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.

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