The Right is Building Its Own Platforms w/ Jacob Silverman
08 03 23
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The Right is Building Its Own Platforms
Jacob Silverman
Notes
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.
Guest
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.
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Links
- Jacob wrote about Rumble as a MAGA platform, why tech is boosting Robert F. Kennedy Jr., revolutionary war reenactors getting caught up in Facebook’s purge of militia groups, and David Sacks.
- Mark Zuckerberg chose to go easy on Alex Jones and other right-wing figures on Facebook.
- Trump Media may be going public via a SPAC merger.
- Darren Blanton was involved in a scheme to keep Black voters from the polls.
- Wendy Siegelman put together a chart of the connections between Rumble, Trump Media, and other groups.
- Rumble went public via SPAC in 2022.
- Brandy Zadrozny wrote about RFK Jr. and his views for NBC News.