Tell Your Uncle He's Fighting Twitter Bots in Bangladesh

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🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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X is full of overseas bots, and a documentary about librarians

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0:00.0	Musk essentially just pulled the curtain down on everyone at once. He unleashed a global witch hunt.
0:06.7	A new location feature on X is raising questions about prominent MAGA accounts.
0:13.1	MAGA Nation X is based in Eastern Europe, and the Pandal at American is based in Pakistan.
0:20.2	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:22.9	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:24.2	And I'm Michael Onger.
0:25.5	Also on this week's show how a school librarian in Louisiana became the target of book-banning
0:32.1	activists.
0:33.0	I'm scared.
0:33.6	They're going to follow me home.
0:34.6	I'm going to be on this stretch of road where no one's around.
0:37.4	And so, yeah, I carry a weapon. Plus, the untold. scared. They're going to follow me home. I'm going to be on this stretch of road where no one's around.
0:45.4	And so, yeah, I carry a weapon. Plus, the untold history of how scholars helped win World War II.
0:51.1	The library is full of stories about spies, but none of those stories are about spies in the library.
0:53.5	It's all coming up after this.
1:03.5	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:04.9	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:06.2	And I'm Michael O'Nger.
1:13.6	The MAGA media has been particularly strange lately. equal parts confusing and confused. Just one word, wow. Kami Mamdani, as the president has referring to his guest in the Oval Office there for the past several months, looked like best friends with President Trump now.
1:25.6	Laura Lumer, who's one of Donald Trump's biggest supporters, said after the meeting that
1:30.6	Democrats will have a landslide in the midterms because of the meeting.
1:35.2	She was just raging.
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