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Your Undivided Attention
Join co-hosts Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin every other Thursday to understand how new technologies are shaping the way we live, work, and think. Your Undivided Attention is produced by our Senior Producer Julia Scott and our Executive Producer Josh Lash. We are a member of the TED Audio Collective.
Episodes
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A Conversation with Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen
We are now in social media's Big Tobacco moment. And that’s largely thanks to the courage of one woman: Frances Haugen. Frances is a specialist in algorithmic…
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Spotlight — A Whirlwind Week of Whistleblowing
In seven years of working on the problems of runaway technology, we’ve never experienced a week like this! In this bonus episode of Your Undivided Attention…
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Making Meaning in Challenging Times — with Jamie Wheal
What helps you make meaning in challenging times? As you confront COVID, the climate crisis, and all of the challenges we discuss on this show, what helps you…
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Spotlight — The Facebook Files with Tristan Harris, Frank Luntz, and Daniel Schmachtenberger
On September 13th, the Wall Street Journal released The Facebook Files, an ongoing investigation of the extent to which Facebook's problems are meticulously…
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The Power of Solutions Journalism — with Tina Rosenberg and Hélène Biandudi Hofer
What is the goal of our digital information environment? Is it simply to inform us, or also to empower us to act? The Solutions Journalism Network (SJN)…
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Do You Want to Become a Vampire? — with L.A. Paul
How do we decide whether to undergo a transformative experience when we don’t know how that experience will change us? This is the central question explored by…
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You Will Never Breathe the Same Again — with James Nestor
When author and journalist James Nestor began researching a piece on free diving, he was stunned. He found that free divers could hold their breath for up to 8…
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A Facebook Whistleblower — with Sophie Zhang
In September of 2020, on her last day at Facebook, data scientist Sophie Zhang posted a 7,900-word memo to the company's internal site. In it, she described…
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A Problem Well-Stated is Half-Solved — with Daniel Schmachtenberger
We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more. But what if many of…
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[Unedited] A Problem Well-Stated is Half-Solved — with Daniel Schmachtenberger
We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more. But what if many of…
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Mr. Harris Zooms to Washington
Back in January 2020, Tristan Harris went to Washington, D.C. to testify before the U.S. Congress on the harms of social media. A few weeks ago, he returned —…
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Can Your Reality Turn on a Word? — with Anthony Jacquin
Can hypnosis be a tool to help us see how our minds are being shaped and manipulated more than we realize? Guest Anthony Jacquin is a hypnotist and…
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The Stubborn Optimist's Guide Revisited — with Christiana Figueres (Rerun)
[This episode originally aired May 21, 2020] Internationally-recognized global leader on climate change Christiana Figueres argues that the battle against…
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Mind the (Perception) Gap — with Dan Vallone
What do you think the other side thinks? Guest Dan Vallone is the Director of More in Common U.S.A., an organization that’s been asking Democrats and…
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Spotlight — Coded Bias
The film Coded Bias follows MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini through her investigation of algorithmic discrimination, after she accidentally discovers…
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Come Together Right Now — with Shamil Idriss
How many technologists have traveled to Niger, or the Balkans, or Rwanda, to learn the lessons of peacebuilding? Technology and social media are creating…
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Disinformation Then and Now — with Camille François
Disinformation researchers have been fighting two battles over the last decade: one to combat and contain harmful information, and one to convince the world…
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The Courage to Connect — with Ciaran O’Connor and John Wood, Jr.
It’s no revelation that Americans aren’t getting along. But it’s easier to diagnose the problem than come up with solutions. The organization Braver Angels…
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A Renegade Solution to Extractive Economics — with Kate Raworth
When Kate Raworth began studying economics, she was disappointed that the mainstream version of the discipline didn’t fully address many of the world issues…
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Two Million Years in Two Hours: A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari is one of the rare historians who can give us a two-million-year perspective on today’s headlines. In this wide-ranging conversation, Yuval…
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Won't You Be My Neighbor? A Civic Vision for the Internet — with Eli Pariser
You’ve heard us talk before on this podcast about the pitfalls of trying to moderate a “global public square.” Our guest today, Eli Pariser, co-director of…
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Are the Kids Alright? — with Jonathan Haidt
We are in the midst of a teen mental health crisis. Since 2011, the rate of U.S. hospitalizations for preteen girls who have self-harmed is up 189 percent, and…
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Your Nation's Attention for the Price of a Used Car — with Zahed Amanullah
Today’s extremists don’t need highly produced videos like ISIS. They don’t need deep pockets like Russia. With the right message, a fringe organization can…
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Spotlight: The Social Dilemma
A new documentary called The Social Dilemma comes out on Netflix today, September 9, 2020. We hope that this film, full of interviews with tech insiders, will…
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Facebook Goes '2Africa' — with Julie Owono
This summer, Facebook unveiled “2Africa,” a subsea cable project that will encircle nearly the entire continent of Africa — much to the surprise of Julie…
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When Media Was for You and Me — with Fred Turner
In 1940, a group of 60 American intellectuals formed the Committee for National Morale. “They’ve largely been forgotten,” says Fred Turner, a professor of…
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Digital Democracy Is Within Reach — with Audrey Tang
Imagine a world where every country has a digital minister and technologically-enabled legislative bodies. Votes are completely transparent and audio and video…
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Spotlight — Beyond the Boycott
#StopHateforProfit is an important first step, but we need to go much further. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information…
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The World According to Q — with Travis View
What would inspire someone to singlehandedly initiate an armed standoff on the Hoover Dam, or lead the police on a 100-mile-an-hour car chase while calling for…
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The Bully’s Pulpit — with Fadi Quran
The sound of bullies on social media can be deafening, but what about their victims? “They're just sitting there being pummeled and pummeled and pummeled,”…
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The Dictator's Playbook Revisited — with Maria Ressa (Rerun)
[This episode originally aired on November 5, 2019] Maria Ressa is arguably one of the bravest journalists working in the Philippines today. As co-founder and…
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The Fake News of Your Own Mind — with Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman
When you’re gripped by anxiety, fear, grief or dread, how do you escape? It can happen in the span of a few breaths, according to meditation experts Jack…
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The Stubborn Optimist’s Guide to Saving the Planet — with Christiana Figueres
How can we feel empowered to take on global threats? The battle begins in our heads, argues Christiana Figueres. She became the United Nation’s top climate…
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The Spin Doctors Are In — with Renée DiResta
How does disinformation spread in the age of COVID-19? It takes an expert like Renée DiResta to trace conspiracy theories back to their source. She’s already…
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When Attention Went on Sale — with Tim Wu
An information system that relies on advertising was not born with the Internet. But social media platforms have taken it to an entirely new level, becoming a…
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Changing Our Climate of Denial — with Anthony Leiserowitz
We agree more than we think we do, but tech platforms distort our perceptions by amplifying the loudest, angriest and most dismissive voices online. In…
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Stranger than Fiction — with Claire Wardle
How can tech companies help flatten the curve? First and foremost, they must address the lethal misinformation and disinformation circulating on their…
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Mr. Harris Goes to Washington
What difference does a few hours of Congressional testimony make? Tristan takes us behind the scenes of his January 8th testimony to the Energy and Commerce…
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Trust Falls — with Rachel Botsman
We are in the middle of a global trust crisis. Neighbors are strangers and local news sources are becoming scarcer; institutions that used to symbolize…
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The Cure for Hate — with Tony McAleer
“You can binge watch an ideology in a weekend,” says Tony McAleer. He should know. A former white supremacist, McAleer was introduced to neo-Nazi ideology…
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Rock the Voter — with Brittany Kaiser
Brittany Kaiser, a former Cambridge Analytica insider, witnessed a two day presentation at the company that shocked her and her co-workers. It laid out a new…
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The Dictator's Playbook — with Maria Ressa
Maria Ressa is arguably one of the bravest journalists working in the Philippines today. As co-founder and CEO of the media site Rappler, she has withstood…
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The Opposite of Addiction — with Johann Hari
What causes addiction? Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream, travelled some 30,000 miles in search of an answer. He met with researchers and lawmakers…
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Pardon the Interruptions — with Gloria Mark
Every 40 seconds, our attention breaks. It takes an act of extreme self-awareness to even notice. That’s why Gloria Mark, a professor in the Department of…
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From Russia with Likes (Part 2) — with Renée DiResta
In the second part of our interview with Renée DiResta, disinformation expert, Mozilla fellow, and co-author of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia…
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From Russia with Likes (Part 1) — with Renée DiResta
Today’s online propaganda has evolved in unforeseeable and seemingly absurd ways; by laughing at or spreading a Kermit the Frog meme, you may be unwittingly…
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Down the Rabbit Hole by Design — with Guillaume Chaslot
When we press play on a YouTube video, we set in motion an algorithm that taps all available data to find the next video that keeps us glued to the screen…
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With Great Power Comes... No Responsibility? — with Yaёl Eisenstat
Aza sits down with Yael Eisenstat, a former CIA officer and a former advisor at the White House. When Yael noticed that Americans were having a harder and…
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Should've Stayed in Vegas — with Natasha Dow Schüll
In part two of our interview with cultural anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll, author of Addiction by Design, we learn what gamblers are really after a lot of…
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What Happened in Vegas — with Natasha Dow Schüll
Natasha Dow Schüll, author of Addiction by Design, has spent years studying how slot machines hold gamblers spellbound, in an endless loop of play. She never…
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