Democrats think Biden is too old to be an effective president as do Republicans.

So I think it's this innate thing where people already are inclined to say, listen, this guy is

old and Biden does have a lot of falls.

We know that traffic to news sites is way down

and traffic to social media sites, short form video sites like

Tik-Toc or Instagram Rails is up and so people are just seeing more and more of these

videos and it's kind of coalescing in this very interesting it's a vacuum is being

filled by Tik-Tok videos and genuine voter concerns about Biden's age.

That's my colleague, Claire Malone.

Claire is a staff writer for the New Yorker, where she reports on politics and America's shifting media landscape.

In January, Claire wrote a piece about the mummification of American politics.

At the time, she joined me for a conversation about how Americans consume the news and why the presidential race might well come down to a few funny videos.

In the months since, our conversation has only become more relevant.

Biden and Trump are competing to go viral on Tik-Tock,

and Republicans are attacking the president with deceptively edited content.

So I thought it would be a good time to return to this episode

about what our deranged media ecosystem has done

to our politics.

You're listening to the political scene.

I'm Tyler Foggett, and I'm a senior editor at the New Yorker.

So you begin your piece by zeroing in on one of the biggest criticisms of

Joe Biden as he runs for

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