Belarus Rising – plus Lights! Kamala! Action!

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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As Belarus fights its way towards true democracy, we speak to a protestor who’s on the ground in Minsk about what’s really happening and what we can do to help. Plus: Can Kamala Harris thread her way past hard right lies, sexism, racism and a left that can’t be satisfied? Plus ‘Leftwaffe’, ‘Starmtroopers’ and our least favourite political neologisms. Special guest Marie Le Conte joins us to discuss these weighty matters – plus the horrific Politics Gossip Drought of 2020. “We’re governed by unexceptional people from exceptional schools.” – Dorian Lynskey “If the word ‘sleaze’ became attached to the Major government, ‘incompetence’ is attaching itself to this government.” – Ben Stewart Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Nina Schick and Ben Stewart. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop. Our new companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too. Remainiacs isn’t going away just because Brexit is happening. We’ll be here throughout to keep the pro-European movement informed, entertained and fired up. Get every new episode a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform. You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan remainiacs.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Remlaniacs, I've available every week on Acast, or as it's been
0:11.7	renamed by Algorithms, Beacast.
0:13.5	I'm Dorian Litsky and I'm joined by a crack team of graduates from the University of
0:18.0	Life.
0:19.0	Nina Schick is the author of Deep Fakes and the Infoclips, what you urgently need to
0:22.6	know.
0:23.6	Hi, Nina, how are you?
0:24.6	Hi, Dorian.
0:26.1	What is it that we urgently need to know on the disinformation front this week?
0:29.9	Well, it's actually rather heartening news.
0:32.4	There was a viral misinformation film about COVID that got shared by millions in May.
0:40.8	It was called, Plannedemic.
0:43.1	And it basically spun a web of conspiracy about how COVID was all manufactured by Bill Gates
0:49.7	and how the WHO was in Cahoots.
0:54.6	It became very popular amongst the Q&N community.
0:58.5	And the second part of Plannedemic, which has just been released a day or two ago, the
1:03.2	social media companies have actually taken action on Facebook, prevented people from
1:09.2	sharing the link.
1:10.7	You know, Twitter has flagged it as misleading information and LinkedIn has banned it outright.
1:16.6	So it's a very interesting lesson into how the spread of viral disinformation can actually
1:22.4	be controlled.
1:24.2	And social media companies have a big part to play.
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