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124: Inside the Race to Go Viral with Ben Smith

The Al Franken Podcast

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The New Right-Wing Populism

The new right-wing populism was just perfectly tuned to follow the energy wherever it led and who cares about the old rules. Facebook was technically structured to amplify what they called engagement, which really meant if I post something stupid and racist and you say you're a racist then I comment, no, you're aracist. The machine says, wow, these people are having such a great engaged conversation. Let's show this content to more people.

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