Erin Griffith

young people seated in grass around a cross

Russian bots seize on Parkland shooting to amplify messages

February 20, 2018Media

These days, the online debates about gun control come with a steroid boost from Twitter bots seeking to divide Americans even further. Host Marco Werman speaks with Erin Griffith, a senior writer at Wired, who wrote about the surge in bot traffic.

Doctor Frankenstein and his monster, depicted here at the Movieland Wax Museum in Niagara Falls, Canada, have become a fixture of Halloween lore.

On the 200-year anniversary of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ we look at some possible modern-day monsters in the tech world

January 26, 2018Books

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