Engines of Outrage Pt. 4
Landslide
NPR
4.8 • 762 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
As tech and media companies, battle for online engagement, they feed their users — they feed us — content that will grab attention, elicit emotion, and confirm existing beliefs. In a way, it traps everyone in their own bespoke bubble, often without our realizing it.
After previous episodes analyzed the right-wing media ecosystem, Landslide: Engines of Outrage now turns to look outside of it, offering tools for all of us to diagnose our own information diets and fight back against the incentives of an internet built to polarize.
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump is back in the White House and making a lot of moves very quickly. |
| 0:05.0 | Keep track of everything going on in Washington with the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | Every day, we break down the latest news and explain why it matters to you. |
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| 0:17.5 | This episode may contain some strong language or violent imagery. |
| 0:20.8 | Listener discretion is advised. Like the most popular YouTuber. Yeah. This episode may contain some strong language or violent imagery. |
| 0:22.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:26.8 | Like the most popular YouTuber is Mr. Beast, right? |
| 0:31.8 | The Atlantic writer Charlie Worsell and I are talking about how the internet changes us. |
| 0:35.5 | His example is Jimmy Donaldson, who goes by Mr. Beast. |
| 0:38.0 | And Mr. Beast's big breakout video. |
| 0:38.9 | Back in 2017. |
| 0:41.8 | Was, I'm going to count to, I think it was a million. |
| 0:44.1 | One, two, three. |
| 0:45.3 | It was 100,000. |
| 0:47.8 | Five, six, seven, eight. |
| 0:50.0 | The video is 24 hours long. |
| 0:51.9 | And that's like a pretty intense thing, right? |
| 0:53.8 | $190,000,000, 1890. |
| 0:56.0 | You watch him bleary-eyed, struggle to say the next number, and it went viral. |
| 1:01.0 | He took the money he made from that video and invested it to make another video. |
| 1:06.0 | And he never spent any of it. You just kept doing that. |
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