#51: Facebook, Twitter, & Evolving Door Politics (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

DarkHorse Podcast

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

Adaptation, Society & Culture, Science, Culture, Evolutionary Biology, News, Modernity, Natural Sciences, Politics

4.6 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2020

⏱️ 98 minutes

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In this 51st in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss Bret’s recent Facebook ban. What are the implications for democracy when social media platforms are in the business of deciding who gets to speak? In the second half, we discuss Eric Hoffer’s 1951 book, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. Are there two mass movements currently competing with one another for adherents? Can creativity provide people wit...

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream number 51 doctor Heather
0:11.6	Hying sitting to my right.
0:13.9	I am a dude.
0:14.7	Yes.
0:15.7	Here we are number 51.
0:17.0	We are here.
0:19.0	And we have a lot to talk about because 2020 marches on.
0:23.8	Things are a foot.
0:24.8	So I believe that we are going to start by talking about some social media shenanigans
0:34.3	to put it rather more lightly than is actually the case and then move on to talking a little
0:39.4	bit about the nature of mass movements.
0:41.4	All right.
0:42.4	The nature of mass movements.
0:43.4	Good.
0:44.4	Well, I'm looking forward to that.
0:45.4	But yes, we should start with what has happened in the last week.
0:48.8	It seems like a month, but you know, that's the nature of time travel at the, the period
0:54.5	approach in the election.
0:56.2	Here's what happened for those of you who have not been paying attention.
1:00.8	What happened was I was involved in a private discussion in which somebody posted a Facebook
1:05.5	link that I was supposed to go look at and I clicked on the link and I got an amazing
1:10.6	message.
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