Factually! with Adam Conover

You are going to die. And I am too! But because of this fact, we are fascinated by people who push the final day off as long as possible, and those who promise to prevent it. But what if I told you that pretty much all of it is BULLSHIT? Today I'm joined by Dr. Saul Justin Newman, a research fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing. He won an Ig-Nobel prize for sho...

You may have heard of Flock cameras, a network of automatic license plate readers that track not only license plates, but what vehicles look like, and even descriptions of people inside them. If this sounds like the makings of a surveillance network that is both antithetical to our values, and ripe for abuse: it is! And here to talk about it is Chad Marlow, senior policy coun...

Life in America is becoming less and less affordable. Politicians tend to blame it on inflation and supply chain issues, but what if corporations are just...price gouging because they can? Today I'm joined by economic sociologist Lindsay Owens to discuss why price gouging is easier and more prevalent than ever, and what we can do about it.

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He can deny it all he likes, but Elon's got blood on his hands.

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Data centers actually predate the internet, but with the growing demands of cloud storage, crypto and of course AI, companies are scaling up, and finding new ways to deceive and exploit us all in the process. Journalist Paris Marx joins me today to examine how big tech is gambling away our planet in the pursuit of digital power.

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