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- 2018 - 2025
Amicus: Who Gets to Lie Online?
While all eyes and brains are on what SCOTUS thinks about making Trump emperor-king, a lesser known case will be heard Monday that could have a huge impact on how social media can (or cannot) keep el…
00:44:39 |
Sat 16 Mar 2024
Slate Money: Work is Mid 🤷‍♀️
This week: Americans don’t care as much about work. They have better things to do. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the prospect of a four-day workweek and what it could mean fo…
00:48:50 |
Sat 16 Mar 2024
What Next TBD: Is TikTok Cooked This Time?
TikTok’s connection to the Chinese government has been a Washington talking point since the Trump administration, but earlier this month lawmakers in the House introduced a bill requiring the app’s p…
00:26:22 |
Fri 15 Mar 2024
ICYMI: An ICYMI Birthday Spectacular
This month marks not only the third birthday of In Case You Missed It but the birthdays of 75% of the ICYMI production team so what else could we do but host a birthday spectacular? On today’s episod…
00:40:02 |
Wed 13 Mar 2024
Death, Sex & Money: Who's Driving Your Uber?
This week, we’re revisiting an episode about the transitional lives of Uber drivers. Anna and then-producer Katie Bishop hitched multiple rides in the Bay Area and heard stories about immigration, do…
00:32:58 |
Tue 12 Mar 2024
What Next TBD: Instagram’s Pedophile Problem
As the debate around child safety online rages on, an investigation by The New York Times found a seedy world of pedophiles interacting with child influencer accounts, often run by their parents, on …
00:33:58 |
Sun 10 Mar 2024
ICYMI: Protecting Child Influencers From Their Parents
Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim are joined by writer and journalist Fortesa Latifi who has been reporting extensively on child influencer legislation for Teen Vogue. In August 2023, the governor of …
00:39:50 |
Sat 09 Mar 2024
Slate Money: Are Wallets Obsolete?
The New York Times declared that physical wallets are on the outs. But is digital enough? Felix Salmon Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers discuss! Also: Steve Mnuchin’s heroic $1 billion bailout of New …
00:44:26 |
Sat 09 Mar 2024
What Next TBD: Why TikTok Went Silent
Thousands of songs have disappeared from TikTok in recent months as music giant Universal Music Group, or UMG, has pulled its catalog from the app. UMG claims that TikTok is a music platform, and tha…
00:22:43 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
ICYMI: An Entirely Objective Ranking of the Brit Crew
On today’s show, Rachelle and Candice return to the halcyon days of YouTube in 2013, when wholesome youths with names like Zoe Sugg and Caspar Lee and Troye Sivan ruled supreme. Colloquially known as…
00:45:25 |
Wed 06 Mar 2024
What Next TBD: Google’s Scam Obituary Problem
Why scam obituaries are edging out earnest ones, with the help of artificial intelligence and an adept Google game.
Guest: Mia Sato, reporter for The Verge.
Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Sl…
00:28:47 |
Sun 03 Mar 2024
ICYMI: Rachel Karten on Snark Subreddits and Ryan Sheckler
Candice Lim is joined by Link in Bio writer Rachel Karten, whose Substack breaks down how Stanley Cups went viral, why the Duolingo owl got a BBL and how “seemingly ranch” hit supermarket shelves. Ka…
00:35:26 |
Sat 02 Mar 2024
Slate Money: Musk vs. the AI Overlords
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers ponder the future of computers, cars, and…fast food? They discuss why Elon Musk is suing Sam Altman and OpenAI and the altruistic origins of C…
00:47:00 |
Sat 02 Mar 2024
What Next TBD: The Supreme Court Takes on Content Moderation
Is it censorship for social media platforms to moderate their content, or is censorship when the state tells social media platforms how to moderate their content?Â
Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, Slate wr…
00:29:23 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
ICYMI: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told…Through TikToks
On today’s episode, Rachelle is joined by her best friend Danielle Hewitt, a producer at Prologue Projects and, formerly, Slate’s daily news podcast What Next. In a deeply revealing exercise, the two…
00:43:15 |
Wed 28 Feb 2024
What Next TBD: Alabama’s IVF Mess
Fertility doctors and their patients trying to conceive via in vitro fertilization (IVF) were stopped in their tracks this week, as the Alabama Supreme Court declared that embryos have the same right…
00:28:09 |
Sun 25 Feb 2024
Slate Money: Is Capital One’s Discover Deal Doomed?
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers come with 0% interest and no fees! They discuss what the proposed merger between Capital One and Discover would mean for the rest of us and wh…
00:42:23 |
Sat 24 Feb 2024
ICYMI: Who TF Did Reesa Teesa Marry?
Rachelle and Candice dive deep into the scammer story currently scratching the internet’s itch: Reesa Teesa’s 52-part “Who TF Did I Marry?” TikTok series. On February 14, @ReesaMTeesa detailed the ve…
00:53:00 |
Sat 24 Feb 2024
What Next TBD: The Coasts are Sinking
Studies have found that, in tiny increments, America’s East Coast is sinking into the ground thanks to climate change. Can a new approach to urban planning mitigate the effect?
Guest: Matt Simon, se…
00:20:11 |
Fri 23 Feb 2024
What Next: Why a Hi-Tech Gun Safety Tool Isn’t Working
Shotspotter lost a huge contract and some face when Chicago opted out of its partnership with the gunfire-identification tech company.Â
Why can’t new policing tech seem to break the old patterns and…
00:24:15 |
Wed 21 Feb 2024
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