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With 2 billion users, YouTube generates its own gravitational pull on society and culture worldwide. And as an open platform that allows anyone to upload videos, it's a force that even Google can't quite control. Hosts: Shirin Ghaffary ( @shiringhaffary ) and Alex Kantrowitz ( @kantrowitz ) Guest co-host: Peter Kafka ( @peterkafka ) Enjoyed this episode? Rate us ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Want to get in touch? Tweet @recode . Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear next week's episode by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Google is done with cookies, but that doesn’t mean it’s done tracking you By Sara Morrison March 3 Filed under: Recode Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem Interviews with diversity managers and internal data obtained by Recode indicate that Black Amazon employees are promoted less frequently and are rated more harshly than non-Black peers. By Jason Del Rey February 26 How YouTube swallowed the world By Peter Kafka and Shirin Ghaffary March 2 What happened to department stores? By Recode and The Goods December 4, 2020 Twitter is tweaking its approach to vaccine misinformation By Rebecca Heilweil March 1 2020 in 20 charts By Rani Molla December 15, 2020 A Black Amazon manager is suing company executives in a discrimination and sexual harassment and assault case By Jason Del Rey March 1 Posting less, posting more, and tired of it all By Rani Molla March 1 Support Vox’s explanatory journalism By Vox Staff April 8, 2020 What companies can do to speed up board diversity By Rani Molla February 26 Coming soon to Twitter: Tweets you have to pay for By Rebecca Heilweil February 25 Filed under: Recode What comes after Zoom fatigue It looks like we’re stuck with video chat. Is that such a bad thing? By Adam Clark Estes July 17, 2020 Why Facebook reversed its news ban in Australia By Sara Morrison February 25 Why some like Apple’s new privacy labels, despite their flaws By Sara Morrison February 24 Filed under: Recode The real cost of Amazon "It’s like I’m risking my life for a dollar" — what the struggle Amazon workers face during the pandemic says about the future of work in America. By Shirin Ghaffary and Jason Del Rey June 29, 2020 Inside the new $65 million push from progressives to compete with conservative media By Theodore Schleifer February 23 App trackers secretly sell your location data to the government. App stores won’t stop them. By Sara Morrison February 23 This stream has: 49 Updates Join the Vox Book Club! By Constance Grady and Emily VanDerWerff February 12 Google is a tech giant now, but was that inevitable? 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