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entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. Hey everybody and welcome to Outward Slate Show About Everything, LGBTQ, and the Infinite, all-encompassing Plus.

I want to live in the plus. I'm Brian Lauder, an editor at Slate.

I'm Juleskill Peterson.

Very plus.

And I'm Christina Cauterucci, a senior writer at Slate.

Hey, everybody.

So I am a devoted and long time committed, committed member of Camp Never Tweet,

because I think it only brings torment and pain and annoying DMs.

But my understanding is that, unfortunately, on this episode, we're going to have to wade into

the swampy waters of X to talk about something else gross that recently happened there.

Jules, do you want to explain that to us?

Yeah, it's true, Brian. I'm sorry. I mean,

I, too, deleted my X account a while back, so I didn't personally have to experience the thing we're going to talk about. But listeners have maybe heard, or if you're on the website,

that a few weeks ago, the platform was taken over by an ad blitz for a Prager

you film about detransitioners. You know, Prager You as well probably get into is not a university,

but it is a high budget right-wing content creator, probably most famous for its really weird

YouTube videos. So X users saw famous for its really weird YouTube videos.

So X users saw ads for this ridiculous anti-trans, like adjutop prop film all over the app

because Prager bought a takeover ad on the platform.

So there's a lot to unpack here.

And we invited the fantastic NBC journalist Joe Yer Kaba, who wrote an article

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