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Hello everyone.

Right, I've got my serious voice on for a minute because it's just to warn you that

for the next few minutes, you're going to hear quite a lot of swearing. Now it's the same swear word but it is

completely integral or integral to the phenomenon that we're going to be talking

about and it's a phenomenon that was raised on the last episode of Brexit cast called

Shit Posting and you may have seen our reference to it ended up being quite

controversial especially on the

Twitter sphere. Now I'm joined by two guests to help us pick our way through the

shit post mays. Um guys introduce yourselves.

I'm Ash Sarka, contributing editor at Navarro Media.

Okay. And I'm Mike Wendling, and I'm the editor of BBC Trending.

Okay, Mike, give us the Dictionary Encyclopedia Scientific Definition definition of what this is?

There is none. Oh, okay. But let me give you what the internet generally thinks of as

shit posting. It is throwing things into a forum to confuse, distract or derail a conversation.

Now we used it on Brexit cast where Laura was talking about some quite crappy memes that the Conservative Party

had made so that their Brexit message but done in comic sands or like on a lurid background

with lurid lettering just so it didn't look very professional and they were putting it out there and we referred to that as shit posting.

Q Ash Sarkar saying

on fuming it's not shit posting. Why not? You guys were

describing was hate sharing. So it's something which is designed to get traction

through being hate shared and it's something which that sort of alt-right

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