The Radio National Hour

A chance to prevent atrocities, that’s how one grieving father who lost a son to suicide has described the government’s proposed digital duty of care legislation, which - they say - will make Big Tech accountable for harmful content on its platforms and empower us to turn it off. The EU has had its own version for years now; Natali Helberger, Distinguished Professor of Law and Digital Technology at the University of Amsterdam explains how its working there. The case of 36-year old Lindsay Clancy has polarised Americans in recent months. The 36-year old admitted strangling and killing her three children in 2023 but has always claimed she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and cannot be held criminally responsible. Last week a 12 person jury failed last week to reach a verdict in her case after days of deliberation, Jolie Zangari, Co-Director of the Trial Advocacy Institute and an Assistant Professor of Legal Process at Touro University in New York City, explains the legal intricacies and conflicting evidence that led to the mistrial.   And most of us have had those moments: when you walk into a room and forget your reason for being there; or worse still you walk into a party and you can’t remember the name of that friend you’ve known for decades. Aging might be inevitable but losing your cognition isn’t, that’s the premise of a new book by Dr Norman Swan called The Brain Cliff.