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Show Notes
On this week’s If Then, Slate’s April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about the Senate’s stand on net neutrality and why Congress is set to renew a major piece of internet government mass surveillance legislation. The hosts are joined by Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of Media Studies at University of Virginia, to talk about Facebook’s big news feed changes and what they might mean for the way we read the news and talk to one another online. And on Don’t Close My Tabs: Google’s gorilla problem and “authentic” Instagram ads.
Don’t Close My Tabs:
The Verge: Google ‘fixed’ its racist algorithm by removing gorillas from its image-labeling tech
The Atlantic: The Strange Brands in Your Instagram Feed
Podcast production by Max Jacobs.
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