Silicon Valley’s Newest Bad Idea, Vigilantes Infiltrate the Far Right, and Should We Buy Infowars?

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Alex Jones’ conspiracy media network, InfoWars, is up for sale, as is the at-home genetic testing service 23andMe…and potentially the DNA of 15 million people who used it. Meanwhile, TikTok grifters are using AI to fake defecting to North Korea, and it’s for a dumber reason than you could possibly imagine. But first! Silicon Valley thinks it’s finally figured out how to make smart glasses that someone will actually want to buy. Max and guest host Jane Coaston (What A Day) break it all down. Then, Max interviews New Yorker correspondent David Kirkpatrick about the rise of left-wing. internet vigilantes who are infiltrating white nationalist groups.

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0:00.0	A lot of these people, as I said, are a little bit paranoid and they really fear, you know, rightly or wrongly,
0:05.5	retaliation by their far right opponents.
0:08.0	I mean, there is a kind of a spy versus spy game going on here where each side tries to docks the other and harass the
0:15.1	other as much as they can.
0:22.2	I'm Max Fisher I I'm Jane Coastin. John Favro is on tour with his offline spin-off show
0:28.5	Pod Save America. I don't know I've never heard of it but if you're listening to this on Sunday, October 6th, you can catch him tonight in Philadelphia.
0:36.0	That clip you just heard was today's guest, the New Yorkers David Kurt Patrick.
0:41.0	David came on to talk about his journey investigating the rise of left-wing
0:44.4	vigilantes who are using the internet to infiltrate and expose far-right extremist groups
0:49.4	often by posing as fresh recruits.
0:51.6	It's a fascinating story with some wild characters. But first
0:54.8	we have a special guest filling in for John to discuss the Week in Tech, the
0:59.4	host of Crooked's Daily News Show. What a day, Jane Co day, Jane, Hi, Max, how are you?
1:04.8	So, Jane, just to give everyone a sense
1:06.7	of your offliningness, what kind of screen time numbers
1:09.5	are we working with?
1:10.5	What's your daily time on your phone? Oh, it's it's seven, eight hours, something like that?
1:15.0	No, come on.
1:17.0	Oh, with the laptop.
1:18.0	You mean, with the laptop.
1:19.0	Yeah, no.
1:20.0	I don't even look combined laptop because I just couldn't internalize that number.
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