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We start this episode off with a discussion about Stormy Daniels and the House Intelligence Committee. We talk about the way the committee has become partisan and what it may mean for the Trump-Russia probe. This leads us to talk about the latest article about Youtube and its capacity for radicalization. We discuss how the nature of social media platforms is to be biased towards the sensational and therefore the algorithms always encourage more and more extreme views. We talk about this affect in Gamergate, clickbait, and how the canary in the coalmine was pornography. We discuss the nature of the internet, politics, and society, and are left worried.
