What Next - Who Influences the Influencers?
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🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
During his presidency, Donald Trump demonstrated the power that social media can have in politics. Now, influencers are taking money to spread messages from across the spectrum. Unlike political ads in older media, though, influencers don’t have to disclose who is paying them—or even that they’re being paid at all.
Guest: Ben Wofford, writer based at Stanford Law School, contributor to Wired.
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, what up, Rowan Kitty here? |
| 0:02.0 | This Friday. |
| 0:03.0 | I believe the system is broken. |
| 0:05.0 | Witness the insane, true story of the little guy who took on the Giants. |
| 0:10.0 | Wall Street must be saying this right. |
| 0:12.0 | We're going to the moon! |
| 0:14.0 | Starring Paul Dano and Seth Rogen. |
| 0:16.0 | How much do we lose today? |
| 0:18.0 | A billion. |
| 0:19.0 | How much should we make today? |
| 0:20.0 | 11 million dollars! |
| 0:21.0 | Critics are calling it hilarious and wildly entertaining. |
| 0:24.0 | If he's in, I'm in. |
| 0:27.0 | Dom money. |
| 0:29.0 | In cinemas Friday. |
| 0:37.0 | If he's being totally honest, Ben Wofford isn't really on the internet. |
| 0:42.0 | He doesn't have a TikTok or an Instagram. |
| 0:45.0 | Okay, so you're a digital nian. |
| 0:48.0 | But even Ben has found it hard to miss the way politicians |
| 0:52.0 | and the people who work with them |
| 0:54.0 | have started to cultivate the people who use the apps |
| 0:57.0 | he's so assiduously avoids. |
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