How April Fool’s Day Keeps the Internet Conspiracy Machine Alive

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Entertainment News, News, Tech News, Society & Culture

3.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

April Fool’s Day is every brand’s favorite holiday. Social media and PR teams get to make all the jokes their marketing department can come up with and face few repercussions. But it’s not all fun and games. On the show today, Rachelle and Madison talk about what nonsense the brands are up to this year, why we’re so easily taken in by internet hoaxes, and how skepticism can harden into something darker. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.8	What I do have are a very particular set of skills.
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0:38.8	Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
0:43.1	Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton.
0:44.9	And I'm Madison Malone Kircher.
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0:51.6	And the girls, they're fighting.
0:56.0	Not us. We're good. No. I mean, are we?
0:58.0	Wow, starting off on an interesting foot here.
1:01.0	The girls in question are not myself and Rachel.
1:05.0	They are TikTok and Facebook.
1:07.0	I mean, meta. I mean Facebook.
1:10.0	Early this week, the Washington Post reported that meta
1:13.5	has apparently been paying a Republican consulting firm
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