The return of Trump?
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump is banned on Twitter and Facebook. Can he make a social media comeback? James Clayton and Jasmin Dyer discuss Trump's plans for his own social media platform 'Truth Social', and hear from Jason Miller, a former Trump adviser and founder of the GETTR platform. Plus we hear how US authorities tracked down billions of stolen Bitcoin, and the growing trend of celebrities advertising cryptocurrency to the masses.
(Photo: Donald Trump at a recent rally, Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:34.1 | There's probably another podcast on there that you're absolutely love. |
| 0:41.5 | No. sounds. There's probably another podcast on there that you're absolutely love. Hello, this is TechTent from the BBC World Service. I'm James Clayton, the BBC's |
| 0:46.9 | tech reporter in Silicon Valley, and we're going All-American on this week's show. The BBC's |
| 0:52.9 | Jasmine Dyer is with me now. Jasmine, we've got the |
| 0:55.7 | possible return of Donald Trump to social media, a massive Bitcoin bust in New York. What else is on |
| 1:01.3 | the show? Well, what's more American than the Super Bowl? We won't be talking about the game this |
| 1:05.6 | week, but the famous Super Bowl ads with some of the most talked about adverts about cryptocurrencies. |
| 1:10.6 | Here's a taste of what's coming up. |
| 1:12.4 | President Trump realizes just how critical it is they get back on social media. |
| 1:15.6 | That really was his superpower in 2016. |
| 1:17.7 | There are billions and billions of dollars worth of crypto out there. |
| 1:22.0 | Are you out of your mind? |
| 1:23.4 | I can't even get tuna without celery. |
| 1:25.5 | Nobody's gone on the moon. |
| 1:29.8 | First, let's talk about Donald Trump. |
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