Eric Johnson
Vox
San Francisco Bay Area, CA, United States
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Whistleblowers have never been more important — or more at risk
John Napier Tye, the founder and CEO of the nonprofit law firm Whistleblower Aid, says the past 10 years have been a "Renaissance of whistleblowing" in America. → Read More
To bring "prestige" back to education, make teachers tax-exempt, says Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman
He’s an adviser to President Trump — but he also wants to see a national $15 minimum wage and an overhaul of the H-1B visa program. → Read More
Workers need to be part of the conversation about UBI, says "Beaten Down, Worked Up" author Steve Greenhouse
Proposals for a universal basic income, such as Andrew Yang’s "Freedom Dividend," may have dire consequences for blue-collar workers who just want a job, Greenhouse says. → Read More
Social media is the perfect petri dish for bias. The solution is for tech companies to slow us down.
Stanford psychology professor Jennifer Eberhardt, the author of Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, says Nextdoor reduced racial profiling by 75 percent by introducing a tiny bit of friction for users. → Read More
Scooters may be a better business than Uber or Lyft, says Lime president Joe Kraus
On the latest episode of Recode Decode, Kraus says the rocky debuts of the ride-hailing giants on Wall Street have not scared Lime away from an eventual IPO. → Read More
Every telecom company can be hacked and "everybody should be suspect," Huawei USA’s chief security officer says
Andy Purdy talks with Kara Swisher about the pending ban on US companies doing business with Huawei. → Read More
John Fallon, CEO of textbook maker Pearson, on Kara Swisher podcast
On the latest Recode Decode, John Fallon explains why the education company is pivoting to digital textbooks. → Read More
Will Reddit un-quarantine its biggest pro-Trump community? CEO Steve Huffman isn’t holding his breath.
/r/The_Donald was punished for hosting "violent content," and Huffman isn’t convinced the community’s moderators are taking that problem seriously enough. → Read More
Why 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang doesn’t want to break up Google
Big Tech’s consolidation is hurting innovation, Yang says, but just saying "break them up" is a "20th century approach to 21st century problem." → Read More
Mayor Pete Buttigieg talks about systemic racism, regulating tech, and the divided Democratic Party on Recode Decode
"The internet started out as the delicate flower. It had to be cultivated and we had let it see where it was going to go. Now we know where it’s going to go, and it’s time to put in the guardrails." → Read More
Journalist Carole Cadwalladr has a question for tech workers: Are you okay with your bosses enabling "techno-fascism?"
One whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, changed the course of Cadwalladr’s reporting on the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Are there more people like him out there? → Read More
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon: the Code Conference interview (transcript)
"It’s one of the functions of building a big, powerful platform that has a lot of positive impact. There are other things that come with it. It’s your job to evolve." → Read More
Rockefeller Foundation president Raj Shah: the Code Conference interview (transcript)
Shah says the most effective form of private philanthropy involves working with the public sector, "not trying to replace it." → Read More
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian: the Code Conference interview (transcript)
Bastian talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Jason Del Rey about improving the customer experience, facial recognition, and Delta employees’ attempts to unionize. → Read More
Recode Podcasts
Recode Decode Recode’s Kara Swisher, Silicon Valley’s most revered journalist, hosts candid interviews with tech execs, politicians, celebrities and more about their big ideas and how they’re changing our world. Tune in every week for enlightening conversations with people like Tesla CEO Elon Musk, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and many more. Apple… → Read More
Twitter’s Kayvon Beykpour and Vijaya Gadde: the Code Conference interview (transcript)
"This is not just about radicalization in America or in Western countries. This is about what’s going on around the world." → Read More
The problem with tech people who want to solve problems
On the latest Recode Decode, MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito says we need to resist the urge to oversimplify the problems we’re solving. → Read More
Recode Media with Peter Kafka
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If the Senate won’t convict Trump, "Why is that bad for the Democrats?" asks The Intercept’s Mehdi Hasan
Even impeachment proceedings that fail to remove President Trump from office are better than nothing, Hasan argues on the latest Recode Decode. → Read More
Russia and China are waging a "shadow war" against the US, and the battlefields will be AI and space, CNN’s Jim Sciutto says
Hacking and election interference were just the start. → Read More