Is the Duty of Care a Fiduciary Model?

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We have to go from a contract relationship, which has been false all along. We've been sold a bill of goods, that's not true,. Let's even just call that a caring relationship that puts your interest first. The goal of policy is to find ways of making the externalities expensive without legislating product decisions. I love your points about responsibility because right now the only way these companies have any incentive to deal with the problem is if someone in civil society goes out of the way and does research.

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.