Join author and journalist Jamie Bartlett, known for his insightful works on tech and politics, as he dives into the transformative impact of podcasts and social media on public discourse. He explores how Donald Trump capitalized on engagement algorithms to shape political narratives. Bartlett highlights the rise of citizen journalism and the challenges it poses to traditional media. He discusses the emotional influence of unedited media on democracy and emphasizes the need for improved information literacy in today’s evolving digital landscape.

Of course Kara and Scott will talk about the sex lives of tech leaders. But once that's out of their system, they'll discuss Q2 Earnings, whether the Jan. 6th committee will hear from Ginni Thomas, and salary transparency. Friend of Pivot Jamie Bartlett tells us about his book, "The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away with It.”Send us your questions! Call 855-51-PIVOT, or via Yappa, at nymag.com/pivot.Send us your questions! Call 855-51-PIVOT, or via Yappa, at nymag.com/pivot.You can follow Jamie at @JamieJBartlett and check out The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stephen Bush, Associate Editor at the Financial Times, shares his insights on the escalating tensions stemming from Russia’s war with Ukraine, raising fears of a potential World War Three. He also discusses farmer protests in the UK over inheritance tax and financial challenges post-Brexit. Joining him is Jamie Bartlett, a misinformation expert and podcaster, who analyzes Elon Musk's controversial influence on politics and the growing exodus from X, highlighting the risks of misinformation in today's digital landscape.

Dr Ruja Ignatova, an Oxford-educated, self-styled cryptocurrency guru, promised her followers a financial revolution through her project: OneCoin. Then, in October 2017, she disappeared. But not before she had duped investors around the world, some of whom are the poorest people in society, into buying up more than $4 billion-worth of OneCoin. Ignatova has been in hiding ever since and was recently added to Europol's most wanted list. Jamie Bartlett is an expert on the politics of the internet and has put the story into a podcast series and now a new book, too: The Missing Cryptoqueen. To talk about it all, he joins our host Carl Miller, Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos, and Layla Begum, a business development executive who was one of the many victims of the OneCoin scandal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Blockchain technology has gone mainstream. It earns huge amounts of column inches and airtime. Stories abound of Bitcoin millionaires and multimillion-dollar ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). New cryptocurrencies are launched every week. People who don’t entirely understand what they’re buying are rushing to purchase Bitcoin for fear of missing out, and recently the UK's Royal Mint announced its first ever blockchain-based non-fungible token, an NFT. Back in 2018, Intelligence Squared gathered crypto specialists to debate whether blockchain technology has a legitimate future or not, including Jamie Bartlett, author and analyst on the politics of the internet, blockchain expert Primavera De Filippi, Vit Jedlička, President of the micronation Liberland, and crypto journalist David Gerard. The host for this discussion was journalist, author and former BBC News Editorial Director, Kamal Ahmed.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices