The Sunday Times\u2019 tech correspondent brings on Mike Harris, founder of 89up, to talk about his work uncovering Russia\u2019s election meddling in Brexit (2:25), the importance of Facebook groups in spreading misinformation (4:10), making an enemy of Russia (7:00), the government\u2019s impending \u2018fake news\u2019 report (8:10), the \u201cMainstream Network\u201d (9:20), Facebook\u2019s complicity in anonymity (14:15), the problem with the master algorithm (17:30), how to fix it (19:45), and the business of chaos (22:35)
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