The growing class of alternative social media networks

1 big thing

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🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Remember Parler? Well that alternative social media platform is not the only one. MeWe is another social media network hoping to gain traction with users who feel they’ve been censored by Facebook. Plus, new challenges to democracy at home and overseas. And, why a fight over a telescope in Hawaii is more than science vs. culture. Guests: Axios' Mike Allen, Sara Fischer, and Miriam Kramer. Credits: Axios Today is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Dan Bobkoff, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Sabeena Singhani, Amy Pedulla, Naomi Shavin, and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning. Welcome to Exios today. It's Friday, July 16th. I'm Nyla Boudou. Here's what we're
0:10.0	covering today. The growing class of alternative social media networks. Plus, why a fight over
0:15.3	a telescope in Hawaii is more than science versus culture. But first, today's one big thing.
0:22.1	Challenges to democracy at home and overseas.
0:28.8	This week, President Biden faced a slew of issues from the crises in Haiti and Cuba to the
0:33.8	fight over voting rights here at home. It's Friday, so we're going to round it all up for you
0:37.6	with Exios co-founder Mike Allen. Mike, good morning. Thanks for being here.
0:41.7	Happy Friday, Nyla. Mike, let's start worth earlier this week. President Biden had some strong
0:47.5	words for America about voting rights coming down hard on the GOP. I wanted to play a little of what
0:54.5	he said. We're facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. That's
1:00.8	not hyperbole, since the Civil War. The Confederates back then never breached the Capitol as insurrection
1:09.1	is still on January the 6th. Mike, I wanted to start by asking you about this because I wonder
1:14.3	people miss this speech because it happened in the middle of the week and in the middle of the day.
1:19.5	No, that's a great point. Now I got texts and call saying exactly what you did. Why isn't this
1:25.5	a prime time address? So I asked the White House and they just said that they've been looking
1:31.4	for a long time at the historic setting of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
1:37.4	It had been set in stone, but then they gave me a tease. They said this isn't President Biden's
1:43.3	last speech on this topic, but we could just see this same point in an even higher profile forum.
1:51.6	What do you think is next on this voting rights front? Well, it's state-by-state. President Biden was
1:57.0	talking about action that he wants Congress to take. It's not imminent, which was part of the
2:02.8	explanation the White House gave me of why it wasn't done as an address to the nation. President
2:08.5	almost never refers to Donald Trump. But even though he didn't say his name in this speech,
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