Facebook Transparency; No More Library Fines; Andrew Yang's Party; Kevin Young on History, Culture & Poetry
The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 6, 2021
On today's show:
- On Tuesday, former Facebook employee Frances Haugen appeared before the Senate to argue that Congress needs to demand more transparency from the tech giant. Cecilia Kang, national technology correspondent at The New York Times and co-author with Sheera Frenkel of An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination (Harper, 2021), breaks down the key takeaways.
- Dennis Walcott, CEO and president of the Queens Public Library system, talks about the decision of all three NYC library systems to cease charging fines for overdue books and what the pandemic has meant for the libraries and the people who rely on them for books and more.
- After running for U.S. president in 2020 and NYC mayor this year, Andrew Yang talks about what he learned from those campaigns, his new book, Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy (Crown, 2021), and his decision to launch the new Forward Party.
- Kevin Young, poet, New Yorker poetry editor and the author of the collection Stones (Knopf, 2021), talks about his poetry and where it intersects with his new job as director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
