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Josh and Nayana are back to discuss the latest tech news, including the planned purchase of Parler by Ye, the adoption of workers' councils by TikTok employees, and the outage of the South Korean megaplatform Kakao. Plus, our reaction to the resignation of Liz Truss!

Josh and Nayana are back from a summer break with the latest tech news and research. This week, they sit down with Hannah Kirk (@hannahrosekirk) and Paul Röttger (@paul_rottger) to discuss their research, which asks how AI can be used to detect online hate speech. We've got many more episodes and conversations with more guests lined up for the coming weeks so stay tuned, and remember to rate and recommend the podcast if you enjoy it!

Josh and Nayana are back to beat the heat, illness and dodgy wifi to discuss news involving Uber and Twitter. Last week Uber was hit with revelations about its corporate practices and cosiness with politicians after a leak, and faces a new lawsuit over scores of sexual assault allegations. Meanwhile, Twitter is suing the Indian government to protest against censorship, and is suing Elon Musk to force him to close a deal to buy the company.

Josh and Nayana are back to cover the latest stories in the world of tech. This week: new revelations over TikTok's cross-border data sharing, the unintended consequences of using Strava on secret military bases, and victories for Apple's retail workers in Maryland and women employees of Google in California.

Josh and Nayana are back to cover three big stories from the world of tech: a lawsuit in Kenya regarding the treatment of Meta's contracted content moderators, the use of social media to rehabilitate the image of the Marcos family during the Philippines presidential election, and the ways that digital data may worsen the danger posed by the threatened repeal of abortion rights in the US.

Josh and Nayana are back with a recap of the big news in the world of tech: Elon Musk's deal to buy Twitter and take it private. They discuss the possible impact of Musk's pledges for Twitter's future, including safeguarding "free speech", open-sourcing Twitter's algorithms, and authenticating users. If you'd like to hear us answer other tech questions you have, reach out to us @skeptechs on—where else—Twitter.

This week Josh and Nayana are joined by fellow OII PhD student Hubert Au (@HubertDAu) to catch up on the latest updates on Elon Musk's bid to take over Twitter and news on various tech unionisation efforts. Then, they discuss (in spoilery detail) the exciting first season of the Apple TV+ dystopian thriller Severance.

Josh and Nayana are back to discuss the latest in tech. This week: a union victory for Amazon warehouse workers in New York, why Elon Musk joined the board of Twitter, and a round of "quick takes" on breaking stories about Meta, Russian app stores and climate misinformation on Pinterest.

Josh and Nayana are back with a show that inevitably has the war in Ukraine as its focus. They discuss the banning of Instagram in Russia following changes to rules for violent speech in Ukraine, debates over a change to search engine DuckDuckGo's ranking of disinformation, and efforts to use Tinder and other unconventional means of changing opinions about the war within Russia.

Josh and Nayana are back to discuss the week's biggest stories in tech. This time, they discuss opposition to Spotify's Joe Rogan podcast, Amazon's retreat from an ill-fated public relations campaign, and the alleged manipulation of an Indian opposition figure's Twitter feed. Plus one or two words (or perhaps four or five) about Wordle's sale to the New York Times.