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New Economics Podcast: Who owns the internet?

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Podcasts New Economics Podcast: Who owns the internet? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Dr James Muldoon By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 16 May 2022 What do you get the guy who has everything? A 44 billion dollar social media platform apparently. Elon Musk has already been accused of union busting, shot a car into space, and become the world’s richest man. So what’s next on his to-do list? Buying Twitter of course! From Mark Zuckerberg to Elon Musk, should we be worried that our online lives are in the hands of a few super-rich men? Will

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New Economics Podcast: Who owns the internet?

Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Dr James Muldoon


What do you get the guy who has everything? A 44 billion dollar social media platform apparently. Elon Musk has already been accused of union busting, shot a car into space, and become the world’s richest man. So what’s next on his to-do list? Buying Twitter of course!

From Mark Zuckerberg to Elon Musk, should we be worried that our online lives are in the hands of a few super-rich men? Will cryptocurrencies and Web3 make the internet good again? And what would a people-powered internet really look like?

Ayeisha is joined by Dr James Muldoon, senior lecturer in political science at the University of Exeter and Head of Digital Research at the Autonomy think tank.

  • You can grab a copy of James’ book Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech here

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