Cooking The Books

Each week the NZ Herald and Newstalk ZB's Cooking The Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it's whether voting with your wallet can push tech giants to change. Hosted by Frances Cook.People power has never been so needed, after a horrifying attack on New Zealand and our muslim community.Fifty people are dead, and many more injured, and everyone is asking how on earth this happened.The power of the community coming together has already been demonstrated in countless candlelight vigils across the country, showing that we will not be divided, and will stand together to protect those who need it.But what about some of the hard choices that will come next? Can people power help there too?There are serious questions to be asked about how the shooter was able to livestream 17 minutes of mass killing.More questions about how it was then spread across other platforms.What seems inescapable now is that radicalisation is happening in our midst, especially online.Social media companies are built to kee