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Invisibilia

The Chaos Machine: Wrathful Lord

Invisibilia

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Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Social Sciences, Science

4.622.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The man behind 209 Times is not who you'd expect. In Part 2, co-host Yowei Shaw discovers the website's surprising origin story, and ends up at the frontlines of a revolt against the mainstream media and a fight over who gets to own the truth.

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0:21.1

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0:24.6

Again, that's mpr.org slash spring survey.

0:28.4

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

0:29.6

So much.

0:31.0

This episode is explicit.

0:41.9

From mpr, this is invisibiliya.

0:43.6

I'm yo-ay Shah.

0:45.1

Welcome to part two of our series, The Chaos Machine.

0:48.6

If you haven't listened to part one, please go back and listen.

0:53.1

When I started making calls in Stockton last summer,

0:56.2

people told me over and over that this story needed

0:58.9

to be covered.

1:00.6

But this story about the news is a lot like the news

1:05.3

in that there's so many ways you could tell the same story,

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