This week we look again at prediction markets and a new series of scandals. Is Congress finally ready to rein them in? Then journalist Joanna Stern returns to the show to discuss her new book “I’m not a Robot“, all about how she turned her life over to a chatbot for a year. And finally, Hard Fork’s Rachel Cohn reports on her month of taking classes at A stronger school of radical attentionthe center of a movement that resists the commodification of attention by tech companies.
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“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton and produced by Rachel Cohn and Whitney Jones. This episode was edited by Vjeran Pavic. Engineering by Chris Wood and original music by Dan Powell, Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto. Fact-checking by Caitlin Love.
Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, and Dahlia Haddad.
