Is There a Co-Producer?

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"We need to add some speed and wisdom to the oversight power of government one way or another," she says. "The biggest problem, the elephant in the room that we're not going to be able to completely upend in the way we want is our capitalist system." The idea of unfettered capitalism match with unfettered innovation is just not a sustainable situation,. She adds: We don't have to replace all of capitalism to make a change to a world where we want to live in".

Aza sits down with Yael Eisenstat, a former CIA officer and a former advisor at the White House. When Yael noticed that Americans were having a harder and harder time finding common ground, she shifted her work from counter-extremism abroad to advising technology companies in the U.S. She believed as danger at home increased, her public sector experience could help fill a gap in Silicon Valley’s talent pool and chip away at the ways tech was contributing to polarization and election hacking. But when she joined Facebook in June 2018, things didn’t go as planned. Yael shares the lessons she learned and her perspective on government’s role in regulating tech, and Aza and Tristan raise questions about our relationships with these companies and the balance of power.