Function with Anil Dash

Bonus: Why Online Safety is a Human Rights Issue

In keeping with our season long discussion of trust on the internet, on this bonus episode of Function - we explore online safety. Writer and activist Feminista Jones talks about the lasting effects of online harassment. Then, Anil talks with Tarah Demant of Amnesty International about an Amnesty report that calls out the abuse and harassment women face on Twitter. Finally Anil speaks with Gina Bianchini, CEO of Mighty Networks, about her platform and what it takes to build safer online communities. LINKS: Toxic Twitter - Amnesty International ReportMighty Networks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bonus: Live from Texas Tribune Fest: Reclaiming Community on the Web

The integrity of the internet is at stake -- what have we lost and how do we get it back?At the 2019 Texas Tribune Festival, Anil spoke with web scholars and writers about reclaiming the internet through historical context, how we are tethered to social media and the inventive ways marginalized people have always reinvented the platforms available.Panelists Charlton McIlwain Anne Helen Petersen Sarah T. Roberts Siva Vaidhyanathan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How To Save the 2020 Election: Stopping Fake News

Are social networks downplaying their complicity in the problem that is “fake news?”Anil talks to Fadi Quran of the people powered social advocacy group, Avaaz, about how tech is used to target groups of people and spread disinformation that affects our elections, relationships, and social justice movements. Together they discuss insidious nature of disinformation and misinformation, meet its victims, and go over solutions. Listen closely for the steps that platforms can take right now to stem the tide of fake news and fake accounts. LINKS: Avaaz.orgFactbook.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How to Save the 2020 Election: Journalism and Social Media

What happens when social networks become social media, and tech starts making editorial decisions?Anil talks with NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen about the priorities of tech companies and how their faux neutrality and feigned ignorance has taken a toll on our news cycles and elections. Together, they identify the problems that the press is facing, like attention hacking and misinformation, in order to focus on how the press and us as citizens can reclaim “the news” and what they care about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Purple Reign: What it Was Like to Work with Prince"

Part 2 of Anil's discussion of Prince's complicated relationship with technology.How do you go from fan to colleague to friend with an icon?Prince’s manager, Phaedra Ellis Lamkins and Sam Jennings, one of Prince’s webmasters take us on a journey of growth and evolution of an artist realizing his worth and his power. As part of a team of trusted friends and confidants they helped “The Artist” realize tech dreams that would serve us all. We also learn that the vision of freedom we often associate with Prince isn’t what we thought.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices