Vivian Schiller is the executive director of Aspen Digital, former head of news at Twitter, and former CEO of NPR. She joins Big Technology Podcast for a discussion of why the public distrusts elites. This conversation takes place in Davos — as the World Economic Forum conducts its annual meeting — and dissects its controversial initiatives such as the "Great Reset." Stay tuned for the second half where we discuss the latest with big tech and Joe Biden's tech agenda.

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Alex Kantrowitz Episodes Around May 27, 2022

Russia and The Information War — With Miriam Elder

How Apple Upended Digital Advertising — With Orchid Bertelsen and David Herrmann

Of Oligarchs and Billionaires — With Teddy Schleifer

Can Apple's Culture Handle Dissent? — With Cher Scarlett

Twitter's Elon Musk Era Begins — With Christopher Mims

God, 'The Current Thing,' And Apple — With Antonio Garcia Martinez

Emergency Podcast: Elon Musk Offers To Buy Twitter — With Ranjan Roy

What The Heck Happened To SPACs — With Charles Duhigg

Elon's Plan to Fix Twitter — With Alex Roetter

Tech Stock Armageddon — With Rich Greenfield

Was Tim Cook The Right Choice For Apple? — With Tripp Mickle

A Debate About NFTs — With Jason Stein

Optimism In A Tech Downturn — With Packy McCormick and Austin Rief

Do We Need The Metaverse? — With Nick Clegg

Do We Need Web3? — With Gavin Wood

Why Elites Are Losing Trust — With Vivian Schiller

Can The Media Fix Its Trust Problem? — With Nicholas Thompson

Wait, The Robots Didn't Take Our Jobs? — With Erik Brynjolfsson

Meta Exit Interview — With Mike Schroepfer

Which Startups (And VCs) Survive a Bear Market — With Nina Achadjian

Anatomy Of A Market Meltdown — With Joe Weisenthal

The Ethics Of Fintech — With Dan Dolev

How Twitter, Instagram, and Planet Build Products — With Kevin Weil

What Happens To Twitter After All This? — With Three Ex-Twitter Employees and Two Reporters

Is Social Media Making Our Society Stupid? — With Jonathan Haidt

Meet The Ex-Google Engineer Who Called Its AI Sentient — With Blake Lemoine

Okay, Maybe Social Media Isn't That Bad For Us — With Brendan Nyhan

Meta's Awkward Pivot, Crypto's Future, Amazon's Challenge — Crossover With Techmeme Ride Home

What Social Media Influence Really Gets You — With Nuseir Yassin

This Is Your Brain On iPhone — With Dr. Anna Lembke

Kevin Kelly's Life Lessons — With Kevin Kelly

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