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291: ‘Algorithms, How Do They Work?’, With Nilay Patel

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Nilay Patel returns to the show to discuss this week’s House antitrust hearing featuring testimony from Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and Mark Zuckerberg.

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    • Links:

    • Full 5.5-hour video of the hearing.
    • Casey Newton at The Verge: “Overdue, messy, and unsatisfying — but also a necessary part of a hugely important conversation”.
    • Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and famed character actor M. Emmet Walsh, who was born to play him.
    • Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) grilling Jeff Bezos on anti-competitive business practices at Amazon.
    • Lina M. Khan: “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox”. Seminal paper published in The Yale Law Journal in 2017.
    • The Verge on the 2010 emails between Phil Schiller, Eddy Cue, and Steve Jobs that set the rules that keep Amazon from selling Kindle books in their iOS app.
    • Tim Wu’s The Curse of Bigness.

      • This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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