Ep 14 | Omicron, Twitter Bans, Bad Takes, Arne Duncan

Lost Debate

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Ravi and Cory discuss the latest Covid surge and whether or not Omicron could end up being a good thing. Twitter permanently suspended Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal account. Are Twitter bans doing more harm than good? Why this approach to managing misinformation might be self-defeating. Cory analyzes the news media’s worst takes from last week’s top stories. Finally, Ravi sits down with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who during the Obama administration, modernized America’s education system. [1:03] Omicron [12:42] Twitter bans Marjorie Taylor Greene [15:12] Section 230 [22:52] Bad Takes [23:14] Kids of politicians [24:33] Gen Z v. Millennials [26:31] Candace Owens [31:28] Arne Duncan Interview Subscribe to The Lost Debate’s YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF LOST DEBATE ON SOCIAL: Follow Lost Debate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostdebate/ Like Lost Debate on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lostdebate Follow Lost Debate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelostdebate

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0:00.0	And I think people need to wrap their head around the possibility at least that Omicron is a good thing.
0:06.0	And...
0:07.0	Omicron is good, you said.
0:08.0	Yes.
0:09.0	So this is the hot take I was wondering you about before the show.
0:11.0	Uh-huh.
0:16.0	Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for political eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. And I'm Corey Bradford.
0:22.2	Corey, we've been off for two weeks. This is our first official show of 2022 and unofficial, actually.
0:28.3	We've missed a lot of news over the past two weeks. What are we going to hit today? Let's just get right into it.
0:32.5	Coming up, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green's Twitter is banned after five strikes of spreading COVID misinformation.
0:39.7	We discussed the implications of social media banning accounts and the debate around freedom of speech and things like Section 230.
0:46.4	Then bad takes from the internet.
0:48.5	I'm going to dive into Candice Owens' takedown of Trump and why Ted Cruz's daughter is making the news.
0:54.8	And finally, Robbie sits down with former U.S. Secretary of Education why Ted Cruz's daughter is making the news. And finally,
0:59.2	Robbie sits down with former U.S. Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan to discuss how schools are failing students and what they can do to improve. But first things, first, Omicron.
1:04.5	Everybody's talking about it. It's actually surging right now. CNBC reported that yesterday
1:09.9	there was more than a million new cases of
1:12.8	COVID-19, the highest single-day total since the beginning of the pandemic. The cases are surging,
1:18.5	and it seems to be of a real concern because how close is this going to get us back to possibly
1:22.6	new lockdowns, new restrictions? You know, what do you think of all this? Well, I think it's
1:26.8	really important. I think Omicron pushes us to adapt as a society.
1:30.3	And I think one of the things we need to adapt is the metrics that we even use to track the severity of this crisis.
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