This week we’re joined by Manasa Narayanan, a journalist and researcher looking into issues at the intersection of politics and technology, including Big Tech/AI, misinformation, online hate and misogyny, surveillance and data rights. In this episode, we unpack the stories we’re told about Big Tech and AI, and why so many of them are misleading by design.

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00:00 Big Tech Narratives

02:00 Tech complicity in violence

05:54 Palantir is evil

11:07 Mainstream misrepresentation

17:26 AI: an ethical consumer choice

25:35 Technological determinism

27:12 Missing context – check out  ...