EP 249: Jacob Siegel on Big Tech and the Information State
From Lean Out with Tara Henley by Tara Henley
May 20, 2026 · 1h 3m
About this episode
Jacob Siegel discusses the implications of the information state and political censorship in the digital age.
Most of us are aware that the digital age we are living through is a time of incredible transformation. But we may not have contemplated what we’d like to see preserved — things like free speech. Some years ago, our guest on this week’s program began investigating political censorship. What he found was bigger, more all-encompassing, and in fact more interesting. In his new book, he argues that we have entered an entirely new political epoch, that of the information state. Jacob Siegel is an ...
People in this episode
Host: Tara Henley
Guest: Jacob Siegel
Topics covered
- digital age
- political censorship
- information state
- free speech
- transformation
Keywords
- digital transformation
- political censorship
- information state
- free speech
- Jacob Siegel
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Big Tech
Books & works: new book
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