You Can't Hit Unsend: How A Social Media Scandal Unfolded At Harvard Social media sites offer quick and easy ways to share ideas, crack jokes, find old friends. They can make us feel part of something big and wonderful and fast-moving. But the things we post don't go away. And they can come back to haunt us. This week, we explore how one teenager's social media posts destroyed a golden opportunity he'd worked for all his life. Shankar Vedantam
Louisiana Attorney General On The Multi-State Investigation Into Big Tech NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry about a new bipartisan, multi-state investigation into the business practices of large tech firms like Google and Facebook.
Telepsychiatry Helps Recruitment And Patient Care In Rural Areas A telemedicine initiative at Meridian Health Services is making it possible to offer psychiatric care to more patients in remote areas. It's also helping recruit doctors in a tight labor market. Yuki Noguchi
48 States Investigating Whether Google's Dominance Hurts Competition The top legal officials of 48 states, led by Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, announced a major investigation into Google's dominance in search and advertising. Aarti Shahani
State Attorneys General Want To Know If Facebook And Google Are Too Big NPR's David Greene talks to Ohio Attorney General David Yost about the multi-state, antitrust probes into Facebook and the parent company of Google.
Troll Watch: Deepfakes And 2020 NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Paul Barrett, adjunct professor of law at NYU, about his report on what disinformation will look like in 2020 and what can be done to lessen its impact.
Will A Massive Effort To Secure The 2020 Vote End Up Superfluous Or Not Enough? Officials at every level say they're changing their approaches to election security as the presidential race comes into view. One challenge, though, is not knowing exactly how to prepare. Philip Ewing
Is Facebook Too Big? State Attorneys General Want To Know Attorneys general from eight states and the District of Columbia have launched a probe into Facebook and its market dominance. The Justice Department has also launched an antitrust review of big tech. Jennifer Liberto
Facebook And Big Tech Meet With Feds To Confer About 2020 Election Security The conference with the FBI and U.S. intelligence and security officials in California reflected a new consensus about the need to prepare against attacks aimed at the next election. Philip Ewing
FTC Fines Google $170 Million For YouTube Children's Privacy Violation NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Rohit Chopra, an FTC commissioner, who says the agency's fine against YouTube owner Google, for violating children's online privacy rules, didn't go far enough.