The Dark Web and the Dark Side of Silicon Valley

The Social Network Show welcomes back Nina Burleigh to the March 2, 2015 episode.

Nina Burleigh recently hired as the National Political Correspondent at Newsweek, an award-winning investigative journalist and author of five books, tells us about two recent articles that she has featured in Newsweek. The first article is about the trial of Ross Ulbricht who started the website, Silk Road, a website often referred to as the "Amazon of Drugs". This website on the Dark Web, connected customers with narcotics vendors and was taken down by the FBI:  The Rise and Fall of Silk Road, the Dark Web's Amazon. The second article is about the domestic violence, gender bias, and sexual harassment in Silicon Valley: What Silicon Valley Thinks of Women. Nina gives us a brief summary and comments on both of these incredibly interesting stories.

Nina Burleigh is an award-winning investigative journalist and the author of five books. Her last book, The Fatal Gift of Beauty, was a New York Times bestseller. In the last several years, she has covered a wide array of subjects, from American politics to the Arab Spring. She is National Politics Correspondent at Newsweek and has written for numerous publications including Rolling Stone, Businessweek, The New Yorker, Time, New York and The New York Times. She has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, The Today Show, 48 Hours, MSNBC, CNN and C-Span, on NPR and numerous radio programs.

Nina was born and educated in the Midwest, has traveled extensively in the Middle East and lived in Italy and France. She covered the Clinton White House for Time and reported and wrote human interest stories at People Magazine from New York.

She is a an adjunct professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and has lectured around the United States, in Italy, and in Mexico. Her book, Mirage, published in 2008 by Harper Collins, was selected by The New York Times as an editors' choice and won the Society of Women Educators' Award in 2008.