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EPISODE · Jan 1, 2026 · 41 MIN

Cory Doctorow: why Facebook and Google are incentivised to make their products worse

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Cory Doctorow has spent decades helping to shape the way we think about the modern internet. He is a campaigner against monopolies, surveillance and digital rights. His new book Enshitification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It analyses how the internet giants have captured us and become not quite as good as we had thought they were.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-truth--6487495/support.

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