Ted Cruz, Penis Mishaps + Matt Stoller on Big Tech Monopoly & Surveillance Advertising

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this Useful Idiots interview, Matt Stoller walks us through some of the myths about big tech. Many members of Congress seem to believe the firms don’t intervene enough; Stoller explains that their massive existing levels of intervention are the problem, that the financial incentives of what he calls “surveillance advertising” move firms like Facebook to push users in the direction of ever more enraging, divisive, and conspiratorial content. Plus Matt (Taibbi) and Katie talk about Ted Cruz, Woke-washing and penis mishaps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I just love the idea of male and handsome tourism.
0:03.3	Come for the seafood, stay for the penis enhancement.
0:06.2	That was a crushing detail about how you can no longer hold it in his hand.
0:09.4	I mean, what can he hold it with?
0:12.9	Tweezer?
0:14.1	Yeah.
0:15.7	And a magnifying glass?
0:23.8	Hello and welcome to Euclidia.
0:25.7	I'm Katie Halper.
0:27.1	And I'm Matt Teibian. This is week three of Euclidia's Unchained,
0:33.9	Euclidia's Judgment Day, Euclidia's Returns,
0:38.2	Euclidia European Vacation,
0:41.0	Euclidia's Fury Road.
0:43.2	We're doing yet another episode of the new Euclidia's and...
0:47.6	Yeah, another one. He sounds so excited.
0:49.6	Yeah, exactly. I'm trying to convey the maximum excitement.
0:52.0	Yeah.
0:52.4	Yeah.
0:53.1	What's to get to? We have an interesting guest this week.
0:55.6	But we have some other announcements we have to get to before we get to the show.
0:58.8	And just so people know, that will be a bonus.
1:02.5	Premium content. That's premium content.
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