What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future
Every Friday and Sunday, Slate’s popular daily news podcast What Next brings you TBD, a clear-eyed look into the future. From fake news to fake meat, algorithms to augmented reality, Lizzie O’Leary is your guide to the tech industry and the world it’s creating for us to live in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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What Happened After Meta Fired Its Fact-Checkers
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The A.I. Data Center Push That Wasn't
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The Death of an Online Whisper Network
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Dupes!
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A Colbert Report
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When Bots Go Nazi
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How The Epstein Files Blew Up MAGAworld
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When A.I. is Sycophantic
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Hot Measles Summer
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How A.I. Lost (and Won) the Big Beautiful Debate
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Rerun: Death of the Weather Forecast?
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The FTC’s Merger Shakedown
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The Other Iran-Israel War
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Airlines Are Selling Your Data to the Government
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We Deport. You Laugh?
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Summer Travel Tips To Not Get Detained
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New DOGE, New Tricks
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The Future of the Internet Hinges on Gail Slater
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Is Palantir Building a Data Big Brother?
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So Long, Elon
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The Drone Wars
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Crypto's Big Win
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Inside OpenAI's Empire
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You’ve Been Deepfaked
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The Newarkification of Flying
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Online and Pregnant
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Chatbots All The Way Down
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How Elon Wields Power
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Marc Andreessen’s New Deal
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Death of the Weather Forecast?
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The Immigration Data Dragnet
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The Baby Monitor Trap
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The U.S. vs Meta
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TikTok: Somehow Also Affected by the Tariffs
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Trump Tariffs Hit Mushroom Kingdom
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Why Wall Street Can’t Quit Elon
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Where DOGE Is Taking Us
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This Is Your Brain On Ketamine
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We Made a Memecoin
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Bezos 2.0
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Trump's War on Scientific Research
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How Trump Is Trying to Kill Press Freedom
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Will Tesla Survive Elon Musk?
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Zuckerberg and the Post-Factcheck Era
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From 4Chan to Charlottesville to DOGE
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Cracking the Egg Crisis
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The DOGE Resistance
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$Trump
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Elon's Endgame
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Can You Pay Attention, Please?
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