Strange News: Fake AI Invades Social Media, Taliban Bans Windows, Rent Conspiracies, Airplane Stowaways and the Death of Mike Rinder
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.3 • 10.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Facebook and Instagram's parent company Meta sparks massive public outcry as their plan to inundate social media platforms with AI bots backfires -- and, at the same time, the company removes fact-checking. The leader of the Taliba orders that buildings should not have windows looking into places where a woman could be sitting or standing. Investigators find two bodies in the wheelwell of a JetBlue aircraft. China hacks the US Treasury. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.
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| 0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:06.9 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:12.0 | A production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:25.3 | Hello, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:26.1 | My name is Matt. |
| 0:27.0 | My name is Noel. |
| 0:28.5 | They call me Ben. |
| 0:32.6 | We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan. Most importantly, you are you. |
| 0:35.1 | You are here. |
| 0:36.2 | That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know. We are back from a holiday break. And if you are listening to this strange news program, the evening it publishes, we would love to welcome you to Monday, January 13th, 2025. Wow. Sorry, I can't get over it every time you say 20, 25, but I guess I probably |
| 0:56.6 | said that in 2024, 2023. Anything post-2020, it just seems like a Futurama episode. Has anybody |
| 1:04.2 | written the wrong date yet? Yeah, for sure. Yeah, it actually, it always hits me when we are |
| 1:10.4 | doing research for an episode or something and creating docs, right? |
| 1:13.9 | And then you have to type the date in or the year in. |
| 1:17.8 | That's when it gets me and I go, oh, no. |
| 1:20.7 | Idiots. |
| 1:21.6 | It'll be so hard on yourself, Matt. |
| 1:24.6 | It'll be, you know, it'll be 2026 before we know it. |
| 1:29.4 | Hey guys, can I do a shameless, shameless plug for a show that all of our voices are in really quickly because of today. |
| 1:36.8 | Please. |
| 1:37.7 | It is, as we said, January 13th, it's Monday. |
| 1:41.9 | That means Monster BTK is officially out. |
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