Ep. 44: Joe Lonsdale, Free Speech is Under Attack

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Ep. 44: Joe Lonsdale, Free Speech is Under Attack

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Following up on his anti-Facebook boycott op-ed in The Washington Post, Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir and founding partner at 8VC, joins The Realignment to argue that free speech and the public square are threatened by illiberalism at home and abroad.

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Collective Crises: Infectious Disease and Informed Democracy: This week, Farai interviews Steven Thrasher, LGBTQ scholar, journalist and author of “The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Diseases Collide.” Thrasher offers insights from his new book on how systematic marginalization determines who is most affected by public health crises like HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and now – monkeypox. Then, Farai speaks to Howard Polskin, president and founder of “TheRighting,” a newsletter, site and social media feed that compiles and disseminates far-right political commentary to cross pollinate the divided media audiences in the U.S. and combat disinformation in the news. by Our Body Politic
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Ep. 44: Joe Lonsdale, Free Speech is Under Attack

Ep. 44: Joe Lonsdale, Free Speech is Under Attack

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