Big Tech on Trial, Iran Tensions Rising and Gen Z Explains Everything

About this episode

Sam and Tiege discuss rising tensions in Iran, a lawsuit against Big Tech, inflation impacts, Gen Z trends, and an AI dating show.

This week, Sam and Tiege break down rising tensions in Iran and a landmark lawsuit holding Big Tech accountable for addictive platform design. They also get into how inflation is hitting unexpected places, Gen Z trends like “looksmaxxing,” and why everyone is suddenly obsessed with an AI dating show… starring fruit.

People in this episode

Hosts: Tiege Dooley-Panko, Samantha Kubota

Topics covered

• Big Tech accountability
• Iran tensions
• Gen Z trends
• inflation
• AI dating shows

Keywords

• Big Tech
• Iran
• Gen Z
• inflation
• AI dating show
• looksmaxxing
• trends

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Big Tech

Products: looksmaxxing

Places: Iran

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