Americanswers: Trump Diplomacy, NPR and How Do Algorithms REALLY work?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Americanswers is back!
In the latest edition of Americanswers, Miles Taylor and Katie Hill join us once more to answer your questions.
This week we look at some challenges from listeners about the evidence of social media’s polarising effect in the US, and whether we do enough to hear from Donald Trump’s supporters.
We also look at the foreign policy record of the former president as we assess whether the US was safer under his watch.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • 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 Hannah Montgomery. 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 | Welcome everyone to American answers, which is going to be a slightly ramshackle affair, |
| 0:08.6 | but none the more, nonetheless fun for that. |
| 0:11.4 | I say ramshackle because we've messed up the times so we've lost |
| 0:15.3 | miles somewhere but Katie very kindly we've brought you forward or backward or |
| 0:20.2 | whatever I can't even guess at what time it is. It's the middle of the afternoon in London. |
| 0:24.5 | Katie, thank you for being with us even though you weren't expecting to be with us. |
| 0:28.5 | For sure, I'm glad to be here. Thank you. And Marianna's here with me. |
| 0:31.8 | Hello, we are in the World Wide Headquarters of America, |
| 0:35.0 | ready to answer lots of your questions. |
| 0:37.0 | And hopefully maybe Miles might join us if he appears. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, and just to defend the producers who we've been shouting at for getting the times wrong. |
| 0:45.2 | I never know what time it is. |
| 0:46.8 | I'm terrible at the time. |
| 0:48.8 | Times. |
| 0:49.8 | There's a wonderful edition of the West Wing where they mess up the times. Do you remember that Katie they |
| 0:56.7 | mess up the times and they leave people in is it Indiana that's got sort of |
| 1:01.2 | several time zones in one place. |
| 1:04.1 | I can't remember. |
| 1:05.1 | I don't know. |
| 1:06.1 | I don't know why we still have this. |
| 1:07.1 | It's weird, isn't it? |
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