How Digital Monopolies Control Art And News

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 2, 2017

Jonathan Taplin, the Director Emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, joins us to discuss his book, Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy. Taplin argues companies like Google and Facebook now control how creative content like music, film and television is distributed and shared.

Note: Jonathan Capehart guest-hosted this segment of "The Leonard Lopate Show."

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