Techtonic
Techtonic is a new podcast from human rights organisation Article 19, hosted by tech reporter Chris Stokel-Walker and produced by Christopher Hooton and Nicola Kelly.
The new series looks at freedom of expression online with a focus on the human impact of Big Tech and social media. We speak to experts around the world, including the former Head of Elections at Twitter, digital rights activists and journalists and we hear from those at the sharp end of AI, deepfake technologies, internet shutdowns and more.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 13
- Years Active
- 2023
Israel-Hamas: verifying truth in the fog of war
The Israel-Hamas war has proven to be a particularly fraught conflict on social media.
Finding out what’s happening on the ground has been complicated by a number of issues: the divisiveness of the de…
AI's inequality problem
The world grows ever more dominated by artificial intelligence. We’re promised huge productivity gains and streamlining benefits to make our lives easier, but there are significant drawbacks.
The dat…
The small town newspaper raided by police
When Eric Meyer answered the door to the home he shared with his mother on August 11, 2023, he couldn’t have expected what was waiting on the other side.
The editor and proprietor of a small Kansas ne…
The artist suing AI giants
Generative AI is overhauling the way we work and live - and giving superpowers to ordinary individuals to create smart copy and stunning images in fractions of a second, but at whose expense?
In this…
Chat GPT and the fake Guardian article
Generative AI can do a lot of useful things: summarise text, spark inspiration and analyse patterns and data. But it can also makes things up, including entire articles from The Guardian.
In this epis…
Could you live without your phone?
Our mobiles are a gateway to the world, holding news and entertainment, personal details and banking account information, friendships - even romances start there. Phones are a treasure trove of infor…
Who controls Big Tech?
Who, if anyone, controls Big Tech?
In this episode, Chris Stokel-Walker talks to David Auerbach, a former Microsoft and Google software engineer credited for bringing the first emoji to the world.
H…
The journalist tracked by TikTok
It's a journalist's worst nightmare: your phone has been tracked by rogue employees from a major Chinese tech company, tapping into your sources. That's what happened to Financial Times tech reporter…
Internet shutdowns: a tool of control
Internet shutdowns are now the first page of the dictator's playbook. Control the lines of communication, and you can control the populace.
In this episode, Doug Madory of internet infrastructure anal…
The deepfake porn problem
In this episode of Techtonic, host Chris Stokel-Walker talks to disinformation researcher and former US Department of Homeland Security staffer Nina Jankowicz. Nina describes the targeted campaign ag…
Elections loom - How will AI affect their integrity?
In this episode, Chris Stokel-Walker talks to Eddie Perez, former Head of Election Integrity at Twitter, about the impact generative AI is likely to have on the 2024 US elections; how deepfakes, fabr…
Introducing... Techtonic with Chris Stokel-Walker
Techtonic is a new podcast from human rights organisation Article 19, hosted by tech reporter Chris Stokel-Walker and produced by Christopher Hooton and Nicola Kelly.
The new series looks at freedom o…
AI's English language problem
In this week's episode, we look at the language biases inherent in AI technologies with guests Aliya Bhatia and Gabriel Nicholas from the Center for Democracy and Technology.
Chris, Aliya and Gabriel …