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Choose your Illusion; financial precarity, meme stocks and disinfo with Ali Breland (Mother Jones)

Choose your Illusion; financial precarity, meme stocks and disinfo with Ali Breland (Mother Jones)

FromInterdependence


Choose your Illusion; financial precarity, meme stocks and disinfo with Ali Breland (Mother Jones)

FromInterdependence

ratings:
Length:
61 minutes
Released:
Dec 29, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

We had a long and wonderful chat with Ali after reading his "Who Goes Crypto?" piece on the increasing number of working people opting into investing money into the casino of crypto and meme stocks rather than adhere to crumbling narratives over how the economy works, and for whom. We also dive into an area of his expertise, online disinformation and it's political ramifications. Holly dips out half way through the discussion, she wasn't feeling great and we did not realise at the time she had contracted COVID. Fortunately all is well now, but that will explain the occasional coughing and spluttering.Thanks everyone, have a great week <3 Follow Ali: https://twitter.com/alibrelandRead Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/Who Goes Crypto? by Ali Breland https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/11/who-goes-crypto-eth-bitcoin-etc-financialization-gamestop-class-wealth/Why Are Right-Wing Conspiracies so Obsessed With Pedophilia? by Ali Breland https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/why-are-right-wing-conspiracies-so-obsessed-with-pedophilia/Bad News by Joseph Bernstein https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/  
Released:
Dec 29, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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