How to Fix the Internet

How to Fix the Internet

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Episodes 67
Avg. Duration 35m
Activity Sporadic
Apple Rating 4.8 (128)
Since Nov 2020
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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Episodic
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feeds.eff.org

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About This Podcast

The internet is broken—but it doesn’t have to be. If you’re concerned about how surveillance, online advertising, and automated content moderation are hurting us online and offline, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s How to Fix the Internet podcast offers a better way forward. EFF has been defending your rights online for over thirty years and is behind many of the biggest digital rights protections since the invention of the internet. Through curious conversations with some of the leading minds in law and technology, this podcast explores creative solutions to some of today’s biggest tech challenges. Hosted by EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn and EFF Associate Director of Digital Strategy Jason Kelley, How to Fix the Internet will help you become deeply informed on vital technology issues as we work to build a better technological future together.

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Recent Episodes

S6 Bonus Episode: Privacy’s Defender

Mar 17, 2026 1h 7m

While How to Fix the Internet is on hiatus, we wanted to share a great conversation with you from earlier this week. EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn spoke with bestselling novelist, journalist, and…

S6 Introducing EFFector: How Targeted Advertising Gives Your Location to the Government

Mar 11, 2026 17m Bonus

A new podcast from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: The digital world isn't just a place you visit on your phone. It's the battleground where tomorrow's civil liberties will be won—or lost. Each…

S6E10 Building and Preserving the Library of Everything

Sep 10, 2025 42m

All this season, “How to Fix the Internet” has been focusing on the tools and technology of freedom – and one of the most important tools of freedom is a library. Access to knowledge not only creates…

S6E9 Protecting Privacy in Your Brain

Aug 27, 2025 38m

The human brain might be the grandest computer of all, but in this episode, we talk to two experts who confirm that the ability for tech to decipher thoughts, and perhaps even manipulate them, isn't…

S6E8 Separating AI Hope from AI Hype

Aug 13, 2025 39m

If you believe the hype, artificial intelligence will soon take all our jobs, or solve all our problems, or destroy all boundaries between reality and lies, or help us live forever, or take over the…

S6E7 Smashing the Tech Oligarchy

Jul 30, 2025 29m

Many of the internet’s thorniest problems can be attributed to the concentration of power in a few corporate hands: the surveillance capitalism that makes it profitable to invade our privacy, the…

S6E6 Finding the Joy in Digital Security

Jul 16, 2025 40m

Many people approach digital security training with furrowed brows, as an obstacle to overcome. But what if learning to keep your tech safe and secure was consistently playful and fun? People react…

S6E5 Cryptography Makes a Post-Quantum Leap

Jul 02, 2025 32m

The cryptography that protects our privacy and security online relies on the fact that even the strongest computers will take essentially forever to do certain tasks, like factoring prime numbers and…

S6E4 Securing Journalism on the ‘Data-Greedy’ Internet

Jun 18, 2025 39m

Public-interest journalism speaks truth to power, so protecting press freedom is part of protecting democracy. But what does it take to digitally secure journalists’ work in an environment where…

S6E3 Why Three is Tor's Magic Number

Jun 04, 2025 30m

Many in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs only from competition, a race to build the next big thing first, cheaper, better, best. But what if…

S6E2 Love the Internet Before You Hate On It

May 21, 2025 39m

There’s a weird belief out there that tech critics hate technology. But do movie critics hate movies? Do food critics hate food? No! The most effective, insightful critics do what they do because…

S6E1 Digital Autonomy for Bodily Autonomy

May 07, 2025 39m

We all leave digital trails as we navigate the internet – records of what we searched for, what we bought, who we talked to, where we went or want to go in the real world – and those trails usually…

S6 Coming Soon: How to Fix the Internet Season Six

Apr 23, 2025 1m Trailer

Now more than ever, we need to build, reinforce, and protect the tools and technology that support our freedom. EFF’s How to Fix the Internet returns with another season full of forward-looking and…

S5 Vote for “How to Fix the Internet” in the Webby Awards People's Voice Competition!

Apr 08, 2025 0m Bonus

EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” podcast is a nominee in the Webby Awards 29th Annual People's Voice competition – and we need your support to bring the trophy home! Voting ends on April 17, so if you…

S5 Rerelease - Dr. Seuss Warned Us

Mar 23, 2025 30m Bonus

This episode was first released on May 2, 2023.  Dr. Seuss wrote a story about a Hawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher whose job it is to watch his town’s one lazy bee, because “a bee that is watched will work…

S5 Rerelease - So You Think You're a Critical Thinker

Oct 11, 2024 43m Bonus

This episode was first released on March 21, 2023.  The promise of the internet was that it would be a tool to melt barriers and aid truth-seekers everywhere. But it feels like polarization has…

S5E10 Fighting Enshittification

Jul 02, 2024 39m

The early internet had a lot of “technological self-determination" — you could opt out of things, protect your privacy, control your experience. The problem was that it took a fair amount of…

S5E9 AI in Kitopia

Jun 18, 2024 38m

Artificial intelligence will neither solve all our problems nor likely destroy the world, but it could help make our lives better if it’s both transparent enough for everyone to understand and…

S5E8 AI on the Artist’s Palette

Jun 04, 2024 38m

Collaging, remixing, sampling—art always has been more than the sum of its parts, a synthesis of elements and ideas that produces something new and thought-provoking. Technology has enabled and…

S5E7 Chronicling Online Communities

May 21, 2024 35m

From Napster to YouTube, some of the most important and controversial uses of the internet have been about building community: connecting people all over the world who share similar interests,…

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