YouTube’s Alt-Right Propaganda Is Gonna Get People ‘Killed’

The New Abnormal

The Daily Beast

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🗓️ 6 August 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Alex Winter has a warning about YouTube that he makes loud and clear in this episode of The New Abnormal politics podcast. He breaks down for Andy how easy it is for users to see right-wing propaganda on the site, especially from the right, as well as one of his biggest fears as a consequence of it: People getting killed. Winter also shares whether we will be having this conversation about TikTok soon and why Google, YouTube’s parent company, isn’t doing anything about it.

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0:00.0	This is Olga Koch, back in the ring for Round 2 of Upfront, the award-winning,
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0:32.4	Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious
0:37.7	objector. I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.
0:42.0	Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator and recovering lobbyist, but today I'm an
0:46.7	unapologetic woke commentator on America's threats to democracy.
0:50.8	And I produce her Jesse Cannon and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails.
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1:09.6	Hello and welcome to another Sunday bonus episode of the new abnormal.
1:12.5	And we thank you so much for being here.
1:14.7	Today we have an extra special guest with director Alex Winter.
1:18.4	You of course know from amazing documentaries like Zappa and Deep Web.
1:22.6	And today he's going to talk to us all about his new documentary that really blew me away
1:26.8	personally. The YouTube effect. He's going to talk to us all about the hidden effects YouTube
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