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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel
Episode: Recode Decode: Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott, co-authors, āDigital Deceitā
Description: New America fellow Dipayan Ghosh and senior advisor Ben Scott talk with Recodeās Kara Swisher about their new policy paper, āDigital Deceit: The Technologies Behind Precision Propaganda on the Internet.ā Both alumni of the Obama administration, Ghosh and Scott say we need to fundamentally reevaluate how digital platforms collect data on their users, and how advertisers can use that information. Although they acknowledge that figuring out how Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election is important, they argue that there are much deeper questions that need to be answered, and possibly problems that need to be regulated. They also d...