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Marketplace All-in-One

X faces fines for misinformation

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

After a swarm of misinformation and gruesome images took over X following Hamas’ attack on Israel, Elon Musk is now under scrutiny by the European Commission to clean up the mess. We’ll also hear how climate change may be affecting our sense of fashion. And we hear this year’s Nobel Prize-winning economist on gender disparities in the workforce.

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    Transcript

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    0:00.0

    I'm ready.

    0:07.7

    Hey, everyone.

    0:08.3

    I'm Kimberly Adams.

    0:09.1

    Welcome back to Make Me Smart,

    0:10.5

    where we make today make sense.

    0:12.8

    I'm Kyle Rizzo.

    0:13.5

    Thanks for joining us on this Thursday,

    0:15.7

    October the 12th.

    0:18.3

    And today we are going to be listening

    0:19.7

    back to some audio from some of the big news stories

    0:22.6

    of the week.

    0:23.4

    And so we have some of those said audio clips

    0:26.7

    aligned up.

    0:27.4

    Let's get to the first one.

    0:29.2

    It's bad incentives.

    0:30.7

    It's basically reply guys meet revenue.

    0:34.1

    And if you put those two things together,

    0:35.9

    it's just an awful dynamic because you've got people

    0:38.6

    who's only in trust is clicks and followers.

    0:41.5

    And then you've given them the gift

    0:43.2

    that these clicks and followers help them make money

    0:45.4

    behind the scenes.

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