The Internet’s Future Under Trump 2.0, with Katie Drummond
WIRED Politics Lab
WIRED
4.2 • 244 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Today on the show, WIRED’s global editorial director Katie Drummond joins Leah to talk about how the internet and online communities contributed to Donald Trump's victory. Plus, one last look at Brat summer, the perils of the Trump-Elon Musk alliance and digital security under the next Trump administration.
Leah Feiger is @LeahFeiger. Katie Drummond is @katie-drummond.bsky.social. Write to us at [email protected]. Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.
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| 0:18.7 | This is Wired Politics Lab, a show about how tech is changing politics. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm Leah Feiger, the senior politics editor at Wired. |
| 0:27.1 | The 2024 election was fought and won on the internet. |
| 0:31.0 | And the result has us thinking about the big picture, the very big picture. |
| 0:35.5 | Many of us here at Wired remember when the web was supposed to be a great engine powering democracy. |
| 0:41.1 | In 2008, for the first time, a majority of voters said they got their information about the campaign online. |
| 0:47.2 | But in 2020, misinformation got six times as many clicks on Facebook as real information did. |
| 0:53.0 | The January 6th Capitol riot was organized online. |
| 0:56.0 | And Trump, who has boosted disinformation constantly |
| 0:58.5 | and posted repeatedly about punishing journalists |
| 1:01.1 | and political rivals, |
| 1:02.6 | use the internet to help get elected once again. |
| 1:05.6 | So what happened? |
| 1:07.5 | How has the internet changed? |
| 1:09.2 | What does it mean during Trump 2.0? And is there anything |
| 1:11.9 | we can do about it. Joining me today is Wired Editor-in-Chief, Katie Drummond. Katie, hi, welcome. |
| 1:19.5 | Hello there. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you so much for joining us. It has been |
| 1:24.2 | quite the week. I'm excited to unpack all of it with you. |
| 1:28.1 | Quite the week. |
| 1:29.1 | So we're recording this on Tuesday. |
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