Recode by Vox's new multi-platform journalism project is going to expose and explain the hidden consequences of tech — the good, the bad, and the complicated.
Episode 1
What facial recognition steals from us
Human faces evolved to be highly distinctive; it’s helpful to be able to recognize individual members of one’s social group and quickly identify strangers, and that hasn’t changed for hundreds of thousands of years. Then in just the past five years, the meaning of the human face has quietly but seismically shifted. That’s because researchers at Facebook, Google, and other institutions have nearly perfected techniques for automated facial recognition.
Episode 2
Google and Amazon are now in the oil business
Episode 3
How ads follow you around the internet
Episode 4
Computers just got a lot better at writing
Episode 5
Why coronavirus scammers can send fake emails from the WHO
Episode 6
The most urgent threat of deepfakes isn't politics
Episode 7
Facebook showed this ad to 95% women. Is that a problem?
Episode 8
The problem with banning TikTok
Episode 9
What voter suppression looks like online
Episode 10
The Instagram aesthetic that made QAnon mainstream
Episode 11
How '90s porn led to the internet's foundational law
Episode 12
The real cost of smart speakers
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