While social networks are clamping down on dangerous content, podcasting is giving it a largely unmoderated platform
In the drawn-out aftermath of the US election, Amelia’s* dad was losing faith in Fox News. Why wasn’t it covering more allegations of voter fraud, he asked. The network was “a joke”.
And so he turned to alternative sources of information: podcasts like Bannon’s War Room, hosted by alt-right figure Steve Bannon, which regularly broadcasts baseless claims about ballot dumps and illegal voters. And an old favourite of his, the rightwing Catholic podcast The Taylor Marshall Show.
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