Americanswers! How algorithms shape us online, Russian interference in 2024, and should the US legalise fentanyl?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Americast is now publishing two episodes a week!
We’re joined once again by special guest hosts Miles Taylor, Trump staffer turned whistleblower, and Katie Hill, former Democratic Congresswoman.
They sit down with Sarah and Marianna to go through some of the most commonly asked questions we get on Americast.
This episode contains a reference to drug overdose which some listeners may find upsetting.
HOSTS: • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent
GUESTS: • Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at Department for Homeland Security • Katie Hill, former Democratic congresswoman
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This episode was made by George Dabby with Catherine Fusillo, Claire Betzer and Natasha Mayo. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producer is George Dabby. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hi everybody, it is Sarah here. |
| 0:07.2 | With the Monday edition of AmeriCast or AmeriCansers, |
| 0:10.7 | because it's when we respond to your questions. I'm in New York City for |
| 0:14.2 | yet another date in the Trump legal calendar and we've got with us Miles |
| 0:19.3 | Taylor in Washington. Good morning. |
| 0:23.0 | And Katie Hill is in Los Angeles. |
| 0:25.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:27.0 | And it's me, Mariana, in the Worldwide Headquarters in London, and it's actually my first time |
| 0:31.8 | ever on the Monday episode so it's |
| 0:33.4 | brilliant to meet you Miles and Katie and we've got lots of questions and |
| 0:38.5 | particularly about actually our last episode of AmeriCast where me and |
| 0:42.1 | Justin chatted to Don Lemon. He's the former |
| 0:45.1 | CNN journalist and it was all about his interview with Elon Musk which ended in |
| 0:49.2 | quite an eventful way and maybe unsurprisingly we've had quite a lot of messages from people who are feeling |
| 0:54.2 | a bit pessimistic about social media, welcome to my world. |
| 0:57.6 | But we've got this question which is about the kind of difference between social media |
| 1:01.7 | and the traditional media from Steve in |
| 1:03.8 | Rochester in the UK. |
| 1:05.2 | Hi America's team I always enjoyed the show and was fascinated by the conversation |
| 1:09.5 | about the Don Lemon and Elon Musk interview. |
| 1:12.3 | Mariana and Justin were talking about the fear that because of the rise of social media |
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