Episode 112: How Our Assistant Producer Exposed Libs of TikTok
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
After Jesse and Katie talk about Chris Rufo and the latest surge of moral panic from journalists who hate journalism, Tracing Woodgrains takes us all deep inside a sophisticated conspiracy to hoax Libs of TikTok. To discuss this episode with other premium BARPod subscribers, click here.
Show notes/Links:
NYT profile: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/us/politics/christopher-rufo-crt-lgbtq-florida.html
People mad (thread):
Rufo’s latest: https://www.city-journal.org/radical-gender-lessons-for-young-children
The documents: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21694116-evanston-prek-3rd?responsive=1&title=1
Trace’s explanation of how he and his furry buddies hoaxed Libs Of TikTok:
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| 0:00.0 | Just you what the fuck did you do? |
| 0:11.0 | I broke it. |
| 0:12.3 | You did break it. |
| 0:13.6 | Explain yourself. |
| 0:14.6 | The, um, here's the thing. |
| 0:16.1 | Whoever runs our social media account, and there's no way to know who that is, so there's |
| 0:20.4 | no way to know who to blame. |
| 0:22.3 | Uh-huh. |
| 0:23.3 | Head was perhaps eight months late in updating the website to reflect the fact that we're |
| 0:27.6 | on Sub-Stack. |
| 0:28.6 | That's what happened, anybody. |
| 0:29.6 | I was poking around in there last night, updating our Twitter account. |
| 0:33.0 | I decided, wouldn't it be cute if we listed as our birthday, the day our podcast launched, |
| 0:39.3 | which I believe is Katie, let's say at the same time, one, two, three, March. |
| 0:43.4 | What, you have no idea. |
| 0:44.9 | No idea. |
| 0:45.9 | When the podcast launched. |
| 0:46.9 | I think it was March 24th, 2020. |
| 0:48.8 | So, uh, I think it'd be cute. |
| 0:51.1 | People will see the, the, the date of our podcast birthday. |
| 0:53.8 | They can wish us happy birthday, send us gifts, maybe send us like cars. |
| 0:57.2 | A doorbell. |
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