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Oh God, What Now?

26: GRAND THEFT DEMOCRACY: Did bots buy Brexit?

Oh God, What Now?

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News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week on the no-bullshit Brexit podcast… We talk to investigative journalist MIKE HIND about how automated social media is warping democracy, and what you can do to keep the bots at bay. Plus: Why Britain should be booming now, and why it isn’t. How Labour Leave keep making progressive arguments for reactionary causes. And a nice big argument about poppy fascism. “There’s so much stupidity out there it’s hard to tell the bots from the real people.” Want to help us #OwnTheRemoan? Visit our PATREON page at http://www.patreon.com/remainiacscast This episode of REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ian Dunt and Peter Collins. Producers are Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. http://www.REMAINIACS.com https://audioboom.com/channel/remainiacs-podcast Theme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Public service announcement. Can we help you manage your terrible news addiction?

0:07.9

I'm Miranda Sawyer from the brand new podcast Papercuts, where we review the daily papers

0:12.9

with a mixture of amazement, horror and sometimes admiration too. We look at the biggest

0:17.9

and weirdest stories from the House of Commons to Love Island, from the male's war on

0:22.6

woke, to the star's war on boffins, to the Guardian's war on fun.

0:28.4

Find out what's really going on behind the headlines with Papercuts. Out lunchtime

0:31.9

every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, with me, Miranda Sawyer. Subscribe on your favourite

0:36.1

podcast app. That's Papercuts. We read the papers so you don't have to.

0:58.4

Greetings, Brexit Britain. Welcome to another edition of Remaniacs, the podcast that wants

1:10.0

a deep and special relationship with Europe. Preferably so deep and so special that we

1:13.9

actually stay in the European Union. I'm Dorian Linsky, and this week we have something

1:18.0

to chill the blood. Later in the show we'll be talking to data journalist Mike Hinde

1:21.6

of the disinformation age podcast about how fake social media profiles and astroturfing

1:26.0

are warping the democratic conversation. How Russian troll farms and bots shape the EU

1:30.0

referendum and the US presidential election and what you can do to fight back. As Mike

1:34.4

will tell us, the problem isn't fake news, it's fake people. But before you load up on

1:39.0

Brain Force Plus, the next generation of advanced neural activation. Let's say hello to our

1:44.1

regular co-presenters. Returning from a week on the subs bench, it's the friendsically

1:48.0

minded Hercule Puerro of Brexit, Peter Collins. Hello Peter. Hello. For some of the

1:52.6

first reason you're not on social media at all are you? No, because I basically, I

1:56.0

think it's all the work of Satan. Although I do actually occasionally make an exception

2:00.9

and check out Satan's personal Twitter account. Do you know he's got one? It's at S 8N

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