ICYMI - How Are the Midterms Affecting Social Media?
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🗓️ 5 November 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Daisy is sitting in the host chair and she’s joined by Slate’s own Nitish Pahwa, who covers business and tech for the site, and has written a lot about these upcoming elections. They’ll be talking about which candidates are and aren’t using TikTok well, how easy it is to encounter election misinformation, Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, and the state of right wing social media platforms.
This podcast is produced by Daniel Schroeder, Rachelle Hampton, and Daisy Rosario.
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| 0:30.2 | I can't edit TikToks by myself yet, so things in my campaign office that just make sense. |
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| 0:41.4 | Hi, I'm Daisy Rosario. |
| 0:45.2 | And I'm Natish Paoa. You're listening to ICYMI. |
| 0:48.8 | In case you missed it. Slates podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:52.6 | Hi Natish, welcome to the show. |
| 0:54.3 | Thanks Daisy. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:56.2 | Oh, I'm so happy that you're here as you can already tell Rachel is out today. Feel |
| 1:00.6 | better Rachel. She's sick guys. Don't worry though, it's not COVID. But not to worry in |
| 1:06.3 | general because we have got a great show in store. One of our incredible slate colleagues |
| 1:11.3 | is here and Natish is here. Natish is an associate writer for business and tech, so he has |
| 1:17.1 | a very different job here than I do. |
| 1:25.3 | Natish, what's it been like for you experiencing this election online as someone who's spending |
| 1:30.5 | their days covering it? |
| 1:32.4 | It is like, you know what it's like going down a rabbit hole that you know is a bad idea |
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