On this week’s episode of the TechTank Podcast, co-hosts Darrell West, and Nicol Turner Lee discuss thefuture of Biden’s tech policy agenda under the new 118 th Congress, including broadband infrastructure,anti-trust, big tech accountability, data privacy, and AI, among other issues. With a GOP majority in theHouse of Representatives and a Democrat-led Senate, this episode dives into which policy areas showthe most promise for consensus, and where there may be challenges to gain cooperation within adivided Congress.

What to expect for big tech, broadband, anti-trust, and other tech issues under the new Congress

In this week's episode of the TechTank Podcast, guest host Mishaela Robison, research assistant in Brookings Center for Technology Innovation, talks with Annie Wu Henry, former social media producer and strategist for U.S. Senator John Fetterman’s campaign. Described as Fetterman’s “TikTok Whisperer” by the New York Times, Henry discusses how social media and technology are changing the way voters, and society more generally engage with politics.

How social media is changing politics

On this week's episode of the TechTank Podcast, guest host Mishaela Robison will sit down with Dr. JoanDonovan, Research Director of Harvard Kennedy’s Shorenstein Center and Emily Dreyfuss, a journalist,who leads the Shorenstein Center News Leaders Program, to discuss their book, Meme Wars: The UntoldStory of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022).

How Memes Are Impacting Democracy

On this week's episode of the TechTank Podcast, co-host Nicol Turner Lee will discuss thefuture of local news and the effects of the internet on traditional business models and the qualityof investigative journalism. The episode will also correlate rising levels of misinformation to aneroding local news landscape. Podcast guests are Courtney Radsch, postdoctoral research fellowat UCLA, and Steve Waldman, founder and president of Rebuild Local News.

Reclaiming local news in the age of the internet

On this episode of the TechTank Podcast, co-host Darrell West is joined by two distinguished experts to discuss if economic decoupling is possible for the United States. Melanie Sisson is a fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, where she focuses on national security in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology. Emily Weinstein is a research fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, where she focuses on U.S.-China technological competition.

Is Economic Decoupling Possible for the United States?

On this week’s episode of the TechTank Podcast, moderator Darrell West, Vice President of GovernanceStudies at the Brookings Institution, will discuss if it&amp;#39;s time for the Supreme Court to regulate socialmedia platforms and the search engines that have become prominent amongst society. To help with thisconversation, the Podcast is happily joined by John Villasenor, a Professor of Engineering, Law, andPublic Policy at UCLA and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings. Mark MacCarthy is a Senior Fellowat the Institute for Technology, Law, and Policy at Georgetown University and a Nonresident SeniorFellow at Brookings.

Is it time to regulate social media platforms and search engines?

On this episode, host Nicol Turner Lee explores technology adoption in Africa and universal access throughout the continent with guests Yolanda Jinxin Ma, head of Digital Policy and Global Partnerships at the United Nations Development Programme, Addisu Lashitew, Global Economy and Development nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Jane Munga,&nbsp;Africa Program fellow at Carnegie who focuses on technology policy.&nbsp;

 Technology adoption in Africa: current and future use cases for development

In this episode of the podcast, co-host Darrell West speaks to Nicol Turner Lee, senior fellow in Governance Studies and director of the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings and Tom Wheeler, a visiting fellow in Governance Studies and the author of a forthcoming Brookings book, “Techlash” about Twitter's future, and the consequences of recent tumultuous changes at the company.

Twitter, Trump, and Online Speech

In this episode of Tech Tank, co-host, Nicol Turner Lee, speaks with Rashawn Ray, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution, and Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research, University of Maryland; and Kinnis Gosha, Executive Director and Chief Research Officer of the Center for Broadening Participation in Computing, Morehouse College. These experts discuss the current and future possibilities of AR/VR, and the metaverse and the impact on public sector applications. We also dive into how to attract more diverse developers and subscriberson these spaces.

What will it take to create inclusive AR/VR for a more diverse metaverse?

TechTank is a biweekly podcast from The Brookings Institution exploring the most consequential technology issues of our time. From artificial intelligence and racial bias in algorithms, to Big Tech, the future of work, and the digital divide, TechTank takes abstract ideas and makes them accessible. Moderators Dr. Nicol Turner Lee and Darrell West speak with leading technology experts and policymakers to share new data, ideas, and policy solutions to address the challenges of our new digital world.&nbsp;Sign up to receive the <a href="https://connect.brookings.edu/tech-tank-updates" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TechTank newsletter</a> for more research and analysis from the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings.

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