The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And every Tuesday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives – and which ones you should bring into yours.
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WWDC predictions / Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act
Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn run through the most interesting rumors and predictions of announcements at Apple's WWDC next week. Adi Robertson joins to discuss the latest threat to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Stories discussed in this episode:
- Cheap steroid reportedly improves survival for severe COVID-19 cases
- FDA ends emergency authorization for hydroxychloroquine
- Why there’s so much confusion around asymptomatic COVID-19 cases
- The gadgets Late Night with Seth Meyers uses to keep the show running from home
- Google commits $175 million to racial equity with focus on black-owned businesses
- Instagram’s CEO says the platform is examining how its policies affect black users
- Apple faces another EU antitrust complaint as App Store pressure grows
- Apple says the App Store created $519 billion in commerce last year
- Justice Department asks Congress for a sharp cut to websites’ legal protections
- Senate Republicans want to make it easier to sue tech companies for bias
- Facebook removes Trump ads for using Nazi imagery
- Google Ads bans Zero Hedge for racist content, but reverses
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