How should the Royals respond to TikTok conspiracies?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Even after Kate Middleton appeared IRL at a local Windsor farm shop, the Tiktok conspiracy theories continued. Was it really Kate? Was the photo staged? Why did the video look different to the still image? On and on.
The Royals have always generated frenzied gossip. What was once shared over a neighbourly picket fence is now just dispersed online. But does that change how the Royals should respond? Should they hold their nerve or feed the beast? We talk to Royal Correspondent Peter Hunt.
Later, EU leaders have caved into the demands of European farmers by imposing higher tariffs on Ukrainian imports. Are they more scared of Putin or their own pitchfork protesters? And what will it mean for the war?
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Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Producer: Alex Barnett
Video Production: Rory Symon and Shane Fennelly
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. And the rod of equity and mercy a symbol of covenant and |
| 0:17.2 | peace. May the spirit of the Lord who anointed Jesus at his baptism so anoint you this day |
| 0:25.3 | that you might exercise. That was the king's coronation less than a year ago. Remember that sound |
| 0:31.1 | of normality, of continuity, of a sense of authority, of the wheels staying on even after the Queen's death. |
| 0:41.3 | Yet suddenly, we're feeling in a much more vulnerable place with regard to the royal family |
| 0:47.7 | and just who's leading it. |
| 0:50.2 | And social media is driving so much of this in a way that it feels that the palaces have a communications playbook that was written in a pre-Twitter, pre-Tic-Tic-Tac age. |
| 1:04.0 | And they haven't caught up with what is happening out there. And that is driving the narrative and driving what a lot of the newspapers |
| 1:12.6 | are reporting. So the question is, how do they catch up? How do they respond? Welcome to the |
| 1:19.6 | newsagents. |
| 1:20.6 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:24.6 | It's John. |
| 1:25.6 | It's Emily. |
| 1:26.6 | It's Lewis. And later in the show we're going to be talking about a story which has come |
| 1:30.7 | out of Brussels in the last 24 hours. And the EU Council, don't go to sleep. It's really, really |
| 1:36.1 | important because there is a story about the EU's commitment to Ukraine, which on the surface |
| 1:42.0 | is rhetorically very strong. They're still talking |
| 1:45.9 | the good talk. But the last 24 hours, they've basically cut off a key source of income and |
| 1:52.5 | in effect economic aid, all in the name, basically, of French farmers. |
| 1:56.5 | But we're going to start with the royal family. And today I've been speaking to someone who is close to the palaces. |
| 2:05.6 | He has worked there. He is still regularly in touch with Prince William. I've got nothing new to say in terms of medical bulletin reports. |
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