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Is the rise of AI inevitable or just the latest cycle of hype for a sector that thrives on the vibes? The author of “Resisting AI’, Professor Dan McQuillan, joins the show to argue for a more fundamental response to Big Tech.

 

Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:

• the launch of AI’s new Sora video product

• the push to sell advertising inside GPTs

• and how consultants are embracing work slop

 

Join us for our live shows in capital cities around Australia

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To discuss the issues raised in this episode join us in the Democracy Sandpit - https://civility.bettermode.io/welcome

The co-author of ‘Conspiracy Nation’ takes us on his journey into the world of anti-vaxxers, wellness influencers and sovereign citizens.

 

Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:

• The call for AI Red Lines

• The rise of Work Slop

• And Murdoch’s Tik-Tok play.

 

In October we will beholding a series of live shows in capital cities and would love you to come along.

 

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To discuss the issues raised in this episode join us in the Democracy Sandpit - https://civility.bettermode.io/welcome

The tech industry is pitching data mining and new infrastructure as the key to national prosperity. But will it deliver? And if so, for whom?

 

Tech Council of Australia CEO, Damian Kassabgi joins regular panelists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis for the latest episode of Burning Platforms.

 

The show also covers:

• fresh concerns over age verification

• the creepy rise of intimate AI companions

• And Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa’s address to the National Press Club

 

To discuss the issues raised in this episode join us in the Democracy Sandpit - https://civility.bettermode.io/welcome

“I’m concerned that AI and big tech – well, big tech with AI – has gone into a full-court press… particularly on the federal system...I’m concerned that without thinking it through clearly enough, policy makers won’t essentially subject the slogans to sufficient scrutiny.”

 

This week on Burning Platforms, we recorded our special briefing for cultural creators and those who value their work to discuss Big Tech’s push to mine our culture.

Our panel discusses:

• How AI large language models have been built on the theft of the work of musicians, writers journalists and artists.

• What the productivity Commission’s proposal to give AI companies a ‘right to mine data’ will do to Australian performers

• How creatives and citizens can resist the attacks from AI

 

Featuring:

• AI expert and author Professor Toby Walsh

• Midnight Oil front man Peter Garrett

• Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea

• Australian Writers Guild CEO Claire Pullen

To discuss the issues raised in this episode join us in the Democracy Sandpit - https://civility.bettermode.io/welcome

New Federal industry and science minister Tim Ayres shares his take on industry policy, AI's opportunities and risks, and how we could steer through the latest wave of tech change.

With regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton, and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis

To discuss the issues raised in this episode join us in the Democracy Sandpit - https://civility.bettermode.io/welcome

 

Can Australia play a leading role in imagining a tech future that isn’t controlled by either the US or China? Johanna Weaver from the Tech Policy Design Institute expands on her recent essay ‘System Update - An Australian-led new deal for tech’ - https://www.australianforeignaffairs.com/essay/2025/06/tech-wars

 

Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis will also discuss:

• what the new Federal Parliament means for tech
• how Cloudflare could rewrite the game in copyright
• and the rise of Satanic Chat Bots

 

To discuss the issues raised in this episode join us in the Democracy Sandpit -  https://civility.bettermode.io/welcome

The Large Language Models are powered by stolen data but there are new and innovative ways to make the thieves pay. Professor Toby Walsh explains the tech-driven resistance to Big AI from data poisoning to responsible cloud computing.

With panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Editor of the Sizzle Cam Wilson, and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis we also discuss:

• Qantas’ big data hack

• Victoria’s foray into AI policing

• and how Velvet Sunset’s fake music is bringing tears to Peter’s eyes

To discuss the issues raised in this episode join us in the Democracy Sandpit - https://civility.bettermode.io/welcome

"I thought old people got scammed. And actually young people are at greater risk because they have more confidence in dealing [with things] online."

This week on Burning Platforms, the team learns how the financial scam industry has become an enthusiastic early adapter of AI and how the banks are working around the clock to ensure they aren’t the ones liable for the ensuing harm. 

With our regular panelists Digital Rights Watch Chair, Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton, Per Capita’s Peter Lewis, who are joined by co-founder of Scams Victims Alliance, Alex Brooks. 

To discuss the issues raised in this episode join us in the Democracy Sandpit. (https://civility.bettermode.io/welcome)

For more about Scams Victims Alliance go to: https://scamvictimalliance.org.au/ 

"What could things have become? You could imagine if the baton had been passed from the Obama administration to a Clinton administration... an American public much more ready... for the turns in AI that we are facing now."   On this week's Burning Platforms, our panel spends some quality time with the architect of the Biden Administration’s AI executive order, Dr Alondra Nelson.   With regular panelists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton, and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis.   Join the conversation. Get involved with the Burning Platforms community in the Democracy Sandpit - https://civility.bettermode.io/

 

Burning Platforms struggles to make sense of white genocide, design unicorns and the all-seeing Apple Eye.

E-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant joins regular panellists Digital Rights Watch founder Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis for our regular dive into the world of tech and politics.

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Good things come in threes and this week’s Burning Platforms looks at the inspiration behind the new Pope’s decision to name himself Leo, the critical changes to the Labor Government’s front bench and Mark Zuckerberg maximum number of friends.

 

Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis and joined by Professor Dan Angus from QUT’S Digital Research Centre.

With a federal election within days, Burning Platforms looks at the lack of discussion about tech and whether that is a good or bad thing.   With Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Per Capita’s Peter Lewis and special guests, Editor of The Sizzle, Cam Wilson and Dr Rys Farthing from Reset Australia.   Don't forget to subscribe to The Town Crier, the official newsletter of the Centre for the Public Square and Burning Platforms podcast: https://the-town-crier-2.ghost.io/   Support our guests by checking out their content and work. Subscribe to The Sizzle! - https://thesizzle.com.au/

Reset Australia's work on the Child Online Privacy Code - https://au.reset.tech/news/welcoming-a-children-s-privacy-code/

As the world teeters on the brink of whatever comes after globalisation we dive deep into the way AI is transforming film-making with the director of the iconic Australian film Kenny, Clay Jacobson.   Our regular panel of Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:

• The theory that the Trump Tariffs were cooked up by a chatbot
• The growing chance that the FTC anti-trust case against Meta is history; and 
• The backlash against Chat GPT’s appropriation of Studio Ghibli’s acclaimed work.

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On this week's episode of Burning Platforms, the gang looks at global efforts to force Big Tech to pay their share of tax with special guest Dr Mark Zirnsak from the Tax Justice Network.

 

With our regular panelists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis.

 

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This week on Burning Platforms, we dive deep into a new initiative to understand the role of Trust in the relationship between society and technology with special guest, Professor Terry Flew.

 

With regular panelists Per Capita’s Peter Lewis,  Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine Dan Stinton, we'll also look at: 

• Data Centre Diplomacy
• will Google’s AI search eat itself?
• and Digg’s reboot

 

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Burning Platforms is back for 2025.

With the tech overlords in the ascendant, particularly following the US election, we take stock of the impending inferno with our regular panel Per Capita’s Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine Dan Stinton, and special guest, fresh from the Paris AI Summit, Professor Nick Davis from UTS’ Human Technology Institute.

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In our final episode of 2024 we unpack the recent Senate Report into the Adoption of AI in Australia with Committee Chair Senator Tony Sheldon.

 

We also look at:

• Woolworth's industrial dispute over workplace surveillance

• Why Meta is building a deep sea cable to India

• How TikTok was gamed to deliver an election boil over in Romania

 

With regular panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, HealthEngine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita's Peter Lewis.

 

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Burning Platforms dives deep into the common ground between national security and individual privacy with cybersecurity expert Miah Hammond-Errey, host of the Technology and Security podcast.

 

Also this week:

* Bunnings wrapped over facial recognition

* Trump’s crypto bonanza

* and could the Social Media Ban have a silver lining?

 

Panelists:

* Digital Rights Watch chair, Lizzie O’Shea, 

* Health Engine CEO, Dan Stinton

* and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis

 

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  The upcoming US Presidential elections will shape - and be shaped by - the Web3 community. We talk with Mark Monfort from the Aus De-Fi Association on what the moment means.   He joins our panel of Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton, digital rights advocate Kate Bower and Peter Lewis from Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.   Also this week: * The new front on chat-bot accountability * Is Emotional Intelligence the next killer app? * and has AI doomer-ism turned the corner?   Listen to Burning Platforms: https://tinyurl.com/3sck83b6   Warning - This episode mentions suicide. If you or anyone you know needs support, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or at lifeline.org.au, or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636 or at beyondblue.org.au/forums.

As researchers are locked out of digital platforms, we contemplate a new era of control and secrecy, with responsible tech academic Gina Neff.

She joins our panel of  Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie OShea, Choice’s digital campaign lead Rafi Alam and Peter Lewis from Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.

Also this week: The Social Media Summit takeaways The eyes inside our cars And the Nobel Prize’s AI extravaganza

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Open AI's Sam Altman has launched a new product line with a new business model and a new philosophy. But do they all line up? 

Lee Schofield from ‘Future is Now’ with our regular panelists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton.

 

We also cover

·      The fallout from 7-Eleven’s privacy breach 

·      Misinformation and disinformation laws 

·      And  Mark Zuckerberg’s new Metaverse glasses.

 

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Listen to our live virtual town hall briefing to discuss the Federal Government’s much anticipated plans for privacy reform and the launch o the Privacy Now campaign - https://privacynow.org.au/.

 

With:

• Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind

• Human Technology Institute director Ed Santow

• Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea

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  What can Only Fans teach us about the internet? Social media academic Emily van der Nagel takes us through her research with content creators and consumers to reveal the logic behind a very different platform.   She joins our regular panel of Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Centre of the Public Square convenor Peter Lewis.   Also this week:

• The arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov
• Musicians count the cost of AI; and 
• What next for the News Media Bargaining Code?

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In this week's episode if Burning Platforms, the panel dives into the product liability of companion apps with consumer law academia, Jeannie Peterson.

Also this week, they touch on: * the UK riots and platform responsibility * Musk’s X-rated presidential dalliance * and the People’s bid for TiKTok

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Forget intelligent machines waging war on humans, the real threat could be the amount of energy and water data processing centres are sucking up in the service of AI.

 

Gordon Noble from UTS’s Institute of Sustainable Futures has been crunching the numbers and it makes for alarming reading.

 

He joins our regular panel of Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Centre of the Public Square convenor Peter Lewis.

 

Also this week:

• Has the US Supreme Court just granted Big Tech a giant leave pass?
• Why is Google still addicted to Cookies?
• And could Mark Zuckerberg by right, for once 

 

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On this week’s Burning Platforms, Peter Lewis launches the “Civility Manifesto” live at the July John Cain Lunch.    Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.   Don't forget to subscribe to The Town Crier, the official newsletter of the Centre for the Public Square and Burning Platforms podcast: https://the-town-crier-2.ghost.io/  

  On this week’s Burning Platforms, we talk with author Tracey Spicer about the biases and contradictions at the heart of Artificial Intelligence.   Our panel of Essential’s Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton also ask: * who really runs Australian tech policy? * what does the collapse of US privacy reform mean? * and why is Dan perplexed about Perplexity?   Join host Peter Lewis next week at the July John Cain lunch, where he will discuss ‘Rebuilding the Public Square.'  Wednesday July 17. Join us live in Melbourne or via live stream. Register at humanitix.com   Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.   Don't forget to subscribe to The Town Crier, the official newsletter of the Centre for the Public Square and Burning Platforms podcast.   Buy Tracy's book about AI, MAN-MADE: http://tinyurl.com/2b3wzh8c

This week on Burning Platforms, our regular panel of Essential's Peter Lewis and Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea share a special extended interview with Taiwan’s inaugural Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang and Radical xChange founder Glen Weyl about their new collaborative book, ‘Plurality.’

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This week on Burning Platforms, our regular panel of Essential's Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, and HealthEngine CEO Dan Stinton, are joined by Professor Nicholas Davis from UTS’s Human Technology Institute as they dive deep into new research on how worker power could be the key to harnessing AI to deliver real productivity.   Also discussed on this week's Burning Platforms:

•    What does Apple’s deal with open AI mean?
•    Is Google capturing more of you than you realise?
•    Can Australian ban election deep fakes?

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On this week’s Burning Platforms, host Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton are joined by media and tech commentator Ricky Sutton to dive deep into his analysis of Google’s growing dominance and how it might be its own Achilles Heel.

 

Plus they also ponder whether: Can Scarlett Johansson save the internet? Should we impose age limits on social media? And if should Australia have sovereign AI capability?

 

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Is AI robbing writers of their ideas and what can we do about it? 

 

Australian Writers Guild CEO Claire Pullen joins the regular panelists Essential’s Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton for our fortnightly dive into political tech.

 

They also discuss:

• Whether Google really cares about our privacy?
• Can an AI deliver talking points better than a politician?
• Is the internet already dead?

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This week’s Burning Platforms looks at Australia’s face-off with Elon Musk and the role live-streaming has in building media accountability.

 

Also covered: Google’s sacking of workers who protested the companies deployment of its tech stack in Israel and a new wearable that promises to remember everything you say.

 

With special guest, author Tim Dunlop and regular panelists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton. Hosted by Essential Media’s Peter Lewis.

 

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Burning Platforms dives deep into the role humans play in managing large platforms and small communities with academic and convenor of the upcoming All Things in Moderation conference Venessa Paech.

 

Our panel also discusses:

• Who is really incognito on Google?
• Who should deal with the downstream risks of Open AI’s new Voice Engine?
• And are we Witnessing AI’s first acts of genocide?

 

With Peter Lewis from Essential, Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’SHea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton.

 

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Welcome back to Burning Platforms – a podcast about the politics of technology - from our new home at Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.

 

Burning Platforms takes a deep dive into AI-generated mind reading with Michael Blumenstein, Deputy Dean at UTS’s’ Faculty of Engineering and IT.

 

Plus:

• Is Trump’s "Truth Social" the Ultimate Deal?

• Are new EU Competition Laws a Big Tech game-changer?

• And should ‘Post and Boast’ Laws be Toast?

 

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Welcome back to Burning Platforms – a podcast about the politics of technology - from our new home at Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.

 

This week, Peter, Lizzie, and Dan dive deep into Meta's threat to pull news from Australia and what it will mean to journalism and whether the compromise required to create the News Media Bargaining Code will become the seeds of its destruction. 

 

Also:  * Is banning TikTok the next global border war? * Are self-driving cars jumping the tech shark? * Is a free AI course really 'scholarship?'

 

The Burning Platforms panel was joined by academic, Belinda Barnett.

 

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Welcome back to Burning Platforms – a podcast about the politics of technology - from our new home at Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.

 

For our first episode for 2024, Peter, Lizzie, and Dan will discuss the federal governments new doxxing laws, Open AI's latest product, Sora, and question whether LinkedIn is the "last platform standing".

 

We're also joined by Deep Dive/Guest: Nick Suzor,  Law Professor at QUT Digital Media Research Centre and member of Meta’s Oversight Board, to chat about new book Lawless: the secret rules that govern our digital lives.

 

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Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. 

 

As the world races to regulate artificial intelligence and machine learning, we’re joined by Professor Toby Walsh, Chief Scientist at the University of New South Wales and author of new book 'Faking It', to expose all of A.I.’s tricks and lies.

 

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Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. 

 

This episode of Burning Platforms looks at the march of AI through the prism of dystopias with critic and writer Richard King, author of 'Here Be Monsters'.

 

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Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. 

On this episode the panel is joined for an intimate discussion with the self described ‘emotional intelligent’ AI chatbot, Pi.

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This episode of Burning Platforms comes live from the Australian Labor Party National Conference Fringe Festival where we talk AI regulation, privacy reform and hack the data of an MP!

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Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. 

 

With The Voice to Parliament referendum campaign in full swing, we examine the role that digital platforms play in influencing the discussion.

 

Our panel is joined special guest Queensland University of Technology Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Axel Bruns.

 

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Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. 

 

This episode, we are joined by Andrea Carson, Professor of Political Communication from LaTrobe University to dissect ACMA's proposed new disinformation powers, and ask the question, 'Can we actually regulate disinformation?'

 

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Technology described as artificial intelligence is becoming more pervasive, with AI algorithms transforming science and industry, along with our everyday lives. But what is AI really? Is it truly intelligent? Is it always a benignly useful modern-world companion?

 

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This week, the Burning Platforms panel unpack this and more with AI academic Campbell Wilson on his new book 'Living with AI'.

 

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Apps now harvest so much of our data, from our locations and movements, our shopping habits, even for some women - their fertility. What are the privacy implications of capturing this much bodily information?

Burning Platforms speaks with academic Katharine Kemp about her work tracking the data-harvesting of fertility apps.

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With a new focus on protecting children online as part of an evolution of the Privacy Act, rights activist Chloe Shorten (Director Alfred Health and Industry Funds Services, Ambassador Foyer Foundation) joins the Burning Platforms panel to look at the case for using new and existing laws to define and enforce the rights of minors.

 

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With the first major review of the Australian Privacy Act in 40 years reaching end-game, the Burning Platforms panel unpack the state of events, and discuss a new report looking at how tick-a-box consent is undermining our freedom and privacy.

 

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After the string of hacks in late 2022 the government has developed a new online identity wallet. What is the logic behind it? Will it provide better privacy for citizens? And should we trust government with our data anyway?

 

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This week Peter Lewis, Lizzie O'Shea, and Dan Stinton are joined by Professor Ed Santow, Director for Policy & Governance at the Human Technology Institute, and Industry Professor for Responsible Technology at the University of Technology Sydney.

 

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Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. 

 

This week, we speak with Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, authors of new book 'Chokepoint Capitalism' and explore how creatives can break free of Big Tech and Big Content

 

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The final Burning Platforms of 2022 reflects on the year that was, including Elon Musk, tech regulation, privacy and more. Plus we held quizzes, played 'Dan or bot', and launched new book 'Disconnect'!

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Twitter is imploding before our eyes under Elon Musk, Meta is shedding staff and stock prices, and the crypto winter freezes out more people as FTX collapses. Is this the end of the (Big Tech) world as we know it? And are we all feeling fine? What will happen next?

 

Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. 

  Join Peter Lewis, Lizzie O'Shea, and Dan Stinton for this week's analysis of the politics of technology from around the world.

 

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