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105. Fighting Conspiracy Theorists & Fake News - Stephen Knight

heretics. | andrew gold

Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Stephen Knight is an online thought leader, I’d say a comedian too, who became known for his Twitter account GSpellchecker. Stephen Knight links: https://twitter.com/GSpellchecker https://www.youtube.com/user/GSpellchecker https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-godless-spellchecker-podcast/id780794967 Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok http://andrewgoldpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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0:10.0

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0:22.0

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0:25.2

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0:29.7

teasingcies apply. We're one of the first generations to have every single bit of

0:35.4

recorded knowledge at our fingertips and yet we still believe demonstrable

0:39.9

bollocks because somebody's tweeted it and that frightens me a little bit.

0:46.3

Today we've got returning guest Stephen Knight.

0:50.1

I'm a huge fan of Stephen's which is why I've asked him to come back on the show.

0:53.3

I don't often have people on more than once but I think it's been over a year I'm not sure.

0:58.0

Stephen is an online thought leader and I'd say a comedian too who became known for his Twitter account G spell checker

1:05.0

and he used to correct religious people's misspelling of the word atheist and

1:10.6

did it with quite a lot of humor, it was really funny.

1:13.0

It got picked up by a lot of big accounts and people like Ricky Gervais, for example, who shared it.

1:20.0

And so his Twitter account grew a lot.

1:21.0

Ricky asked Stephen on his podcast quite often and as well, so it really

1:26.2

grew and spiraled from there. He's evolved to take what I'd call the central, moderate and

1:30.8

sensible ground on all issues taking anti-vaxes and right-wing

1:35.9

conspiracy theorists to task just as much as he does to ideological lefties and

1:41.1

woke critical race theorists.

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