System Crash
Tech giants like Google and Facebook have conquered — some would say killed — the internet. Elon Musk used his platform to help elect Trump, and Silicon Valley elites want to gut the public sector. OpenAI and Microsoft aim to wipe away millions of jobs. Uber is driving down wages. Apple is impenetrable. Amazon is inescapable. All this high tech, and our quality of life is getting lower. The system has crashed.
So, System Crash: a weekly tech news show willing to tell the hard truths about how tech — and the titans who own and operate it — is really transforming the world. Co-hosts Paris Marx and Brian Merchant dissect the stories that matter, break news of their own, offer expert commentary, and interview journalists, whistleblowers, authors, and tech workers and ordinary people fighting back.
System Crash
What Meta Wants From Donald Trump ft. Jason Koebler
Jason Koebler joins the show to chat with Paris and Brian about the looming TikTok ban (that got even less likely after we recorded) and what Mark Zuckerberg is really looking for from the Trump administration. Plus, the new Free the Feeds initiative, John Deere in the FTC’s crosshairs, and more bad AI news.
Mentioned this week:
- Jason Koebler is a cofounder of 404 Media and cohost of the 404 Media Podcast.
- Paris wrote about Mark Zuckerberg’s embrace of the MAGA movement in Disconnect.
- Jason wrote about what Mark Zuckerberg is looking for from Donald Trump.
- Meta told the Brazilian government that its changes only apply to the United States — for now.
- The US Federal Trade Commission is suing John Deere for illegally restricting tractor repairs.
- The British Labour government says AI is going to be “mainlined into UK’s veins.”
- The Biden administration has a new executive order to ease the construction of hyperscale data centers on federal land.
