These Two Sites Explain How Facebook Outrage Reshaped Media

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Ben Shapiro's conservative commentary and news aggregation site The Daily Wire is a dominant force on Facebook, where sharp headlines drive massive engagement.

The upstart The Georgia Star News has pushed outright disinformation about the 2020 presidential election and subsequently scored an exclusive interview with Donald Trump.

The two sites illustrate a number of distinct ways in which outrage, social media, and political polarization have reshaped the media landscape.

This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, politics reporter Miles Parks, and Georgia Public Broadcasting reporter Stephen Fowler.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jamie from Santa Monica, California.
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0:41.6	Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast on Susan Davis,
0:44.4	I cover Congress.
0:45.4	I'm Miles Parks, I cover voting and misinformation.
0:48.0	And today we've got Steven Fowler of Georgia Public Broadcasting back with us.
0:51.4	Hey, Steven.
0:52.1	Thanks for having me.
0:53.3	So both of you recently published stories about right leaning news sites.
0:57.2	Miles, let's start with you.
0:58.4	You did some reporting on a site called The Daily Wire.
1:01.8	What is that?
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