Slate Money - Porn and Propaganda
Slate News
Slate Podcasts
4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Joseph Bernstein of Buzzfeed News joins to talk about his Harper’s cover story on antidisinformation, the big OnlyFans porn debacle, and the rise of shoplifted items being sold on Amazon.
In the Plus segment: Renaissance Technologies.
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the porn and propaganda episode of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the week. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm here with Emily Peck of Fundrise. Hello. And very special guest, Joe Bernstein of, I'm not |
| 0:32.9 | entirely sure what your affiliation is. Joe, introduce yourself. Hi, I'm Joe Bernstein. My byline is Joseph, |
| 0:39.0 | but please call me Joe. I, as of Tuesday, am a reporter, a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News. |
| 0:44.4 | I spent the last year as a Neiman Fellow at Harvard University. Welcome, Joe. You are back at |
| 0:50.7 | BuzzFeed now, but during your sabbatical or whatever it was, you did manage to write a massive cover article for Harper's about anti-disinformation, which is a fascinating subject we are going to talk about. |
| 1:05.0 | We are also going to talk about porn, because obviously, it's been in the news for the past couple weeks there was this big sort of flip |
| 1:12.5 | flip flip from only fans we're going to talk about what that was all about we are also going to talk |
| 1:17.4 | about rise in shoplifting thanks to the internet and jeff bezos we have a slate plus segment |
| 1:25.9 | on renaissance technologies and their tax settlement we have a Slate Plus segment on Renaissance Technologies and their tax settlement. |
| 1:30.0 | We have a numbers round that is probably the most depressing numbers round we've ever had. |
| 1:35.0 | No bowling balls. |
| 1:36.1 | But it's all a good show, actually. |
| 1:37.8 | And you get to hear Joe drop some serious knowledge about the internet and whether it changes how we think. |
| 1:43.9 | It's all coming up on Slate Money. |
| 1:49.1 | So, Joe, you disappeared off to Harvard and disappeared into a pile of books and came out |
| 1:55.7 | with a magnum opus on the cover of Harper's magazine about, this is my favorite word that you used in the |
| 2:03.9 | piece, anti-disinformation and the anti-disinformation industry, which now I feel that |
| 2:10.4 | slate money has been part of the anti-disinformation industry ourselves. We are part of the problem, |
| 2:16.2 | but tell us what this industry is. |
| 2:18.6 | I would like to start by saying we've all in various ways, shapes and forms been a part of the |
| 2:25.3 | anti-disfirmation industry. Over the past 10 years, we've sort of been inundated with new and |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.