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Blockout 2024: celebrities face backlash over Gaza

Blockout 2024: celebrities face backlash over Gaza

FromThe Take


Blockout 2024: celebrities face backlash over Gaza

FromThe Take

ratings:
Length:
16 minutes
Released:
May 16, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Now trending: the ‘digital guillotine.’ It’s a campaign known as Blockout 2024 to block celebrities on social media. Launched after the Met Gala in New York, it’s meant to hurt celebrities’ ad revenue. Will it have an impact?
In this episode: 

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (@ASE), Journalist 
Dr. Marcus Collins (@marctothec), Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Michigan

Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Sarí el-Khalili and Khaled Soltan with our host Malika Bilal. Catherine Nouhan and Manahil Naveed fact-checked this episode.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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Released:
May 16, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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Making sense of the world, one story at a time. Host Malika Bilal and journalists from Al Jazeera's international bureaus and beyond share their take on the most important stories every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.