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🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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How the environment became a political battleground, the optics of Trump's new travel ban, and the myth of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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0:00.0	All of a sudden we're all talking about whether or not it's okay for a few dozen people
0:05.3	to hold some signs outside Brett Kavanaugh's house.
0:08.1	How did it draft opinion upending 50 years of legal precedent, devolved into a squabble
0:13.3	about picketing suburban front yards?
0:16.5	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:19.2	I'm Brandy Strasny.
0:21.4	Also on this week's show, how to sniff out a moral panic over brand new tech?
0:26.5	Once the radio was feared to ruin kid's brains, later it was video games.
0:30.8	Now it's TikTok.
0:32.7	If a reporter just says it trended, where's the evidence?
0:35.6	How much did it trend?
0:36.6	Waiter did it trend?
0:38.3	What made it trend?
0:39.3	Plus, what happens when ordinary people unwittingly become the face of viral conspiracy
0:44.3	theories?
0:45.3	First they say, this isn't a misunderstanding and I can explain it.
0:48.4	And then they start to realize that anything they do feeds into the pattern of harassment
0:54.0	and invasive communications.
0:56.2	It's all coming up after this.
1:01.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:04.3	I'm Brandy Strasny.
1:06.4	My day job is as a reporter for NBC News on the misinformation beat.
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