{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/697a7c8bf17fced4fd00dc60/69c56f7f88f1e891320c3cbd?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"You're Not Informed — You're Being Played | Kira Shishkin of informed.now","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/697a7c8bf17fced4fd00dc60/1775515671039-ca56438d-e4af-46f7-a078-c21b33835471.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Most of us are drowning in content but starving for actual facts. This week, Jared and Ian sit down with Kira Shishkin — 4-time entrepreneur, investor, and CEO of informed.now — to talk about why the news media stopped serving readers and started serving advertisers, how misinformation is manufactured at scale, and what a genuine \"information diet\" actually looks like.</p><p><br></p><p>Kira built TurboTax Full Service at Intuit, evaluated 600+ venture deals, and grew up across Ukraine, Israel, and the U.S. — giving him a front-row seat to information warfare in three different cultures. He's not just complaining about the problem; he built a solution: news by SMS, no accounts, no ads, no data collection, just facts from primary sources.</p><p><br></p><p>Whether you still watch cable news or you've checked out entirely, this one will make you rethink how you consume information.</p><p><br></p><p>Check out Kira's company: https://informed.now</p><p><br></p><p>📌 <strong>CHAPTERS</strong></p><p>0:00 — Ian's overcooked intro</p><p>0:43 — Meet Kira Shishkin</p><p>1:46 — Why he left Intuit and TurboTax Full Service</p><p>2:51 — How informed.now works: news by SMS</p><p>4:15 — Sourcing only from primary sources</p><p>6:46 — How news became an advertising business</p><p>9:44 — Are people waking up to media manipulation?</p><p>12:09 — AI in journalism: useful tool or dangerous shortcut?</p><p>21:46 — The coming era of information overload</p><p>25:54 — What a healthy information diet actually looks like</p><p>28:51 — Growing up in Ukraine, Israel, and the U.S.</p><p>33:42 — SMS, anonymity, and radical privacy</p><p>36:16 — Will the world be more or less informed in 10 years?</p><p>38:19 — Evaluating 600+ venture deals — does informed.now pass its own test?</p><p>41:42 — Are we living in truly unique times?</p><p>43:21 — Is America's division real, or manufactured by media?</p><p>45:26 — Jared's 5 rapid-fire questions</p><p>51:02 — Outro</p><p><br></p><p>🎙️ <strong>CONNECT WITH US</strong></p><p>CommonX Podcast | Two Gen X dads talking to people actually doing things in the real world.</p><p><br></p><p>#CommonXPodcast #MediaLiteracy #Misinformation #InformationOverload #GenX #NewsMedia #informed #KiraShishkin #FactsNotOpinions #MediaBias</p>","author_name":"Ian Primmer & Jared Mayzak"}