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Hey there, it's Stephen Dubner.
Before today's episode, I'd like to tell you about a brand new podcast that I think you'll be interested in.
It is called Sudir breaks the Internet.
Sudhir Venkatesh is a sociologist at Columbia University who during the first couple decades of his career, embedded himself with drug gangs and gun runners and sex workers.
He then wrote a fascinating book called Gang Leader for a day.
One person who read the book was Mark Zuckerberg.
He asked Sudir to come work at Facebook.
Sudir then spent three years at Facebook and the next two at Twitter.
Both companies wanted him to apply the tools of sociology to address things like hate speech and bullying, maybe any incipient plans for an insurrection.
Now that Sudhir is out of Silicon Valley, he's taking a long, hard look at the people who run our digital universe, the massive promise of these platforms and the massive problems, too.
The result is Sudir breaks the Internet.
It is the latest show from the Freakonomics radio Network.
You can get it now on any podcast app.
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And let us know what you think we are@radiorecognomics.com.
here now is today's Freakonomics radio episode.
Let's have a little thought experiment.
Imagine that civilization had somehow gotten to where we've gotten in 2021 without the use of either marijuana or alcohol, and they're both discovered overnight.
How would you imagine that those two substances would be regulated, distributed, priced, etcetera, compared to how they are now?
I think that's a great question.