The Rise and Fall of Anti-Wake Culture

4min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

A lot of the people who kind of like greewald or others russell brand who do the anti woke stuff essentially pay lip service to transphobic stuff and uh it's just you know they certainly don't care over at rumble. They recently had a big live stream with andrew tate but they don't seem to care i've emailed them saying do you care that one of your biggest talents is on house arrest for human trafficking and rape and organized prime and they don't respond. Their most polished sort of offering is this thing called power slap it's from dana white the ufc guy and he himself was filmed slapping his wife in new year's party in

Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss how the right-wing of the tech industry are funding media platforms like Rumble to reshape the political discourse and why they’re helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. challenge Joe Biden.

Jacob Silverman is a journalist and the co-author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud. He’s also the host of The Naked Emperor on CBC Podcasts. You can check out Jacob’s Substack.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

Also mentioned in this episode: