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Pod Save the World

White supremacists radicalized online

Pod Save the World

Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.824.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

First, Tommy and Ben talk about the New Zealand terrorist attack and the rise of right-wing extremist groups and nationalist political parties, Huawei and Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro visiting Trump. Then the New York Times's Charlie Warzel joins to discuss how radicalization happens online, how we can stop it and how journalists should cover these communities.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Potts of the World.

0:12.6

This is Tommy VTour.

0:13.6

It's great to be back with you, worldos.

0:15.6

Thank you for tuning in.

0:16.8

I appreciate it as always.

0:18.9

Packs show this week.

0:20.5

Ben Rhodes called in from his travels.

0:23.4

We talked about the New Zealand shooting.

0:26.3

A lot of the stuff that he was getting briefed on by his PDB brief were back in the day about

0:31.5

white nationalists, white supremacist extremist groups.

0:34.7

There's a lot we learned then that is applicable now and truly frightening.

0:39.1

We also talked about some of the ascendant nationalist parties in Europe and what one could

0:44.4

do about them.

0:45.4

We also touched based on ongoing struggles against a Chinese telecom giant called Huawei.

0:50.8

The US is trying to prevent them from building infrastructure because we're worried about

0:54.3

them spying.

0:55.3

And lastly, we talked about Yaya Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, coming to Washington

1:01.0

and what a frightening individual he is.

1:03.6

And then I talked with Charlie Wartsel who is a writer at large for the New York Times

1:07.0

opinion desk.

1:08.2

He covers online culture and online communities, including the cesspools where people like

1:13.9

the New Zealand shooter can get radicalized, can post their hateful rhetoric, can slowly

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