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Channels with Peter Kafka

OnlyFans’ weird week with MEL’s Magdalene Taylor; BuzzFeed’s Joe Bernstein on the problem with our misinformation problem.

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

What is OnlyFans, and why did OnlyFans abandon and then come back to its primary business model in the span of a week? MEL Magazine’s Magdalene Taylor joins Recode’s Peter Kafka to explain the rise of the NSFW platform, and why some banks are reluctant to work with a company that consumers seem to love. Then BuzzFeed News’ Joe Bernstein talks about his recent story on the disinformation/misinformation industry, which isn’t exactly what we think it is. Featuring: Magdalene Taylor(@magdajtaylor), Staff Writer for MEL Magazine Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein), Senior Technology Reporter for BuzzFeed News Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:08.8

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0:20.3

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0:31.8

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slash voxpod this is recode media with peter kofka that is me and today we are going high

1:10.5

and we're going low we're going to talk And today we are going high and we're going low.

1:12.0

We're going to talk about the disinformation industrial complex. And we're going to talk about porn.

1:16.0

And as always, we're going to talk to smart people about these things. First up, we've got

1:20.1

Magdalene Taylor from Mel Magazine to walk us through the crazy only fan story. The story is so weird

1:27.3

that we taped an entirely different

1:28.6

conversation just yesterday and now we had to tape a new one today because there's

1:31.9

new news here. Only fans as many of you probably know is this big and growing and

1:37.6

really interesting subscription porn platform that last week announced they were

1:42.9

kind of getting out of that business and now have announced, no, no, we're going to stay in that business. Magdalene is going to walk us all through it and beyond that sort of talk about the weird place that porn has in our culture where it's both totally pervasive and also increasingly hard to run a legitimate porn business. So we will talk to her about all of that.

2:01.4

And then we're going to talk to Joe Bernstein, who normally writes about tech for BuzzFeed.

2:04.5

He took a year off to hang out with some smarties at Harvard's Neiman Lab.

2:08.1

And he made a provocative splash last week with a big essay in Harper's about disinformation

2:12.3

and misinformation and what those things actually mean and why we don't really know what they mean,

2:16.9

why it's not terrible for Facebook and Twitter and YouTube to have a disinformation problem,

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