Episode 33: Is Banning QAnon From Facebook Good And Is Katie Hill Bad?
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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[Update, 12:10 a.m.: For some reason the version I initially uploaded cut off before the actual ending. Apologies, but everything is fixed now. -J]
The hosts discuss the Katie Hill revenge-porn/throuple scandal, which has gotten yet more scandalous in light of a tweetstorm supposedly authored by her former staffers (who are not fans), as well as Facebook's decision to ban QAnon from that platform and Instagram.
The tweetstorm: https://twitter.com/RepKatieHill/status/1313703826646466562
Politico: Anonymous ‘former staff’ of Katie Hill slam film adaptation of ex-congresswoman’s book - https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/07/anonymous-former-katie-hill-staff-film-adaptation-427038
The New York Times: Facebook Amps Up Its Crackdown on QAnon - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/technology/facebook-qanon-crackdown.html
The New York Times: QAnon Believers Say Being Banned From Facebook Is Proof of the Conspiracy - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/technology/qanon-believers-say-being-banned-from-facebook-is-proof-of-the-conspiracy.html
Reply All: County of Liars - https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/llhe5nm
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on, Katie? |
| 0:03.4 | Kepasa. |
| 0:04.4 | Hey, Jesse, I didn't realize you were bilingual. |
| 0:06.5 | See. |
| 0:07.5 | I had a sort of unfortunate incident yesterday. |
| 0:09.5 | Can I tell you about this? |
| 0:10.7 | Absolutely not. |
| 0:11.7 | All right, well, I'm going to anyway. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm going to violate your consent and do it anyway. |
| 0:16.0 | So next week, I'm going to visit my family in North Carolina for a week. |
| 0:20.6 | And we've really struggled with weather. |
| 0:23.8 | This is a good idea or not, because my parents don't like me that much. |
| 0:29.0 | But I haven't seen them in a long time. |
| 0:31.1 | And they're getting older. |
| 0:32.5 | And I just don't think that I'm not hopeful that the COVID situation is going to be any |
| 0:38.8 | better a year from now or two years from now or three years from now. |
| 0:43.0 | And so it's like, why wait? |
| 0:45.3 | Why not? |
| 0:46.3 | I can't go five years without seeing my parents. |
| 0:48.4 | It's just time to go. |
| 0:49.4 | And it would be better to do it now when we can at least be outside a little bit than |
| 0:52.7 | to do it in December when we're all huddled outside under a heat lamp or something. |
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