
124: Inside the Race to Go Viral with Ben Smith
The Al Franken Podcast
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The Rise and Fall of Social Media
In 2001, a MIT grad student tried to get Nike to print the word sweatshop on his sneakers. He was told it violated their terms of service and he couldn't do that either. The post-9/11 culture jammer is now known as anti-corporate pranksterism. It's one of those insane email forwards from that era that has gone everywhere.
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