65: The Alternative Influence Network, with Rebecca Lewis
I Don't Speak German
IDSG
3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2020
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
This time, Daniel welcomes special guest Rebecca Lewis to the show. Rebecca is the author of the Data & Society report 'Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube' about which Eric Weinstein was such an asshole (our word, not Rebecca's).
Content Warnings as ever.
The report: https://datasociety.net/library/alternative-influence/
Rebecca's Twitter: https://twitter.com/beccalew
IDSG 62 (on Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel, etc): https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/62-eric-weinstein-part-2-cancel-culture
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is I don't speak German. I'm Jack Graham, he him, and in this podcast I talk to my friend Daniel Harper, |
| 0:20.9 | also he him, about what he learned from years of listening to today's Nazis, |
| 0:26.6 | white nationalists, white supremacists, and what they say to each other when they don't think |
| 0:31.9 | we're listening. |
| 0:33.2 | Be warned, this is difficult subject matter. |
| 0:36.2 | Content warnings always apply. All right and welcome to episode 65 of I don't speak German the |
| 0:56.3 | podcast in which I tell people about the things that terrible people say when |
| 1:02.1 | they don't think we're listening. |
| 1:03.2 | As you know, if you're a regular listener and if you don't know if you're not, |
| 1:09.0 | normally I am joined by my very good British friend Jack who does all the actual work of this |
| 1:16.5 | podcast in terms of making it listenable to send anything you thank you to Jack. |
| 1:20.8 | But he is not going to be here today. Instead, I am joined by a no doubt lovely guest. I am joined by Rebecca aka |
| 1:29.2 | aka Becca Lewis, the author of the Alternative Influency Network report from Data and Society, |
| 1:36.7 | and a PhD student at Stanford. |
| 1:39.4 | Please say hi, Becca. |
| 1:41.2 | Hi, thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:43.4 | I am very happy to have you and I must say given that you are on the West Coast, it is probably, I hope I will never |
| 1:51.3 | have to ask this question again, but is your home currently on fire? |
| 1:56.0 | So I'm very privileged to be able to say no. |
| 2:01.0 | I feel like there aren't many. are many people in California who can say that at this point yes it's so |
| 2:07.0 | scary and depressing and kind of I I posted about this on Twitter that I think everyone on the west coast right now is just filled with this sense of like |
| 2:16.3 | existential dread and that's the best that you can hope for right because either you're like in an active state of |
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