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🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Post-election denialism, the pivot to Parler, the Trump-era assault on public data, and reflections from a former conservative journalist.

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0:00.0	I had no idea of the corruption, reed, and bigotry that I was enabling.
0:05.4	I thought that I could change it, but I was wrong.
0:08.3	A former builder of conservative media reflects on the world he left.
0:13.3	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:16.3	I'm Brooke Ladstone.
0:17.6	And I'm Bob Garfield.
0:19.1	The president isn't just trying to steal the election. He's trying to
0:22.9	distort our picture of reality by choking off collection of public data. It's not as if data collection
0:30.1	has been cut down wholesale across the government. It's particular kinds of data that are being
0:35.5	weeded out. Also, as the trolls are exiled from the platforms that made them famous, they're fleeing to lesser-known apps.
0:43.3	But that brings a new set of problems.
0:46.3	I used to think that if we could just move the worst actors on social networks to smaller spaces, we would be okay.
0:52.3	But then QAnon happened.
0:54.9	It's all coming up.
0:56.2	After this.
1:00.5	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:04.3	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:05.7	And I'm Bob Garfield.
1:07.4	Hail to Dorothy.
1:08.5	The wicked witch is dead.
1:10.0	Hey!
1:11.8	Hail to Dorothy. The wicked witch is dead. Hey! Hail to Dorothy.
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