Biden is entering his TikTok era
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🗓️ 15 February 2024
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Summary
Joe Biden’s re-election campaign launched a meme-heavy TikTok account in an effort to reach young voters. But considering national security concerns related to the platform, will the move pay off? We’ll get into it. Plus, strikes by Uber and Lyft drivers across the country are once again highlighting the distinction between contractors and employees. And, we’ll get into Bitcoin’s rebound and Beyoncé’s venture into country music.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
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- “Chicago Uber, Lyft drivers join Valentine’s Day strike with thousands across country” from The Chicago Sun-Times
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- President Biden’s first post on TikTok
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- “Biden campaign joins TikTok in an effort to reach younger voters” from The Washington Post
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- “Beyoncé’s new country songs salute the genre’s Black cultural roots” from The Washington Post
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- “Beyoncé’s new country song features N.C. native Rhiannon Giddens” from Axios Raleigh
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| 0:00.0 | Let's go on color. She's looking at me going what are you doing man you're just rambling |
| 0:04.1 | Which is not wrong? |
| 0:06.9 | Not wrong. Hey everybody. I'm Kyle Risdall welcome back to make me smart where what do we do here oh yes we make today make sense I'm |
| 0:15.0 | Kimberly Adams thank you everyone for joining us on this Thursday February the |
| 0:19.5 | 15th hope you survived Valentine's day all right? I did. Thanks for asking. |
| 0:24.1 | All right so did you? Yes. Yes. All right. Excellent. |
| 0:29.4 | Thursday audio of major stories of the week. We will play them and talk about them. Here we go. |
| 0:37.0 | Uber has proven time and time again that they're putting profits over people, right? In shareholder meetings meetings they discuss profits. There's no |
| 0:44.7 | question about safety protection from deactivation or compensation. Drivers have |
| 0:50.4 | been losing money for years in an attempt to support some way of life. |
| 0:57.8 | You were me. |
| 0:58.8 | You go ahead. |
| 0:59.8 | All right, so that was an Uber driver named Jocelyn Floyd talking to a reporter from the |
| 1:06.2 | Associated Press with a group of drivers outside O'Hare Airport in Chicago who were on, |
| 1:12.3 | I don't know if you're going to call it a strike because they're not technically employees blah blah blah but they work stop and shall we say because groups of drivers across Uber and Lyft and Doordash |
| 1:22.9 | and all the other, you know, sort of app-based driver |
| 1:26.6 | and delivery companies, refused to give drives |
| 1:28.6 | for part of the day in major cities across the country, |
| 1:30.7 | protesting, of course, low wages, safety concerns, and having. across the |
| 1:33.0 | safety concerns and having their accounts unfairly suspended or deactivated as has happened if they |
| 1:39.0 | protest as too much I imagine or some other things. |
| 1:42.0 | This is the perennial too much I imagine or some other things. |
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