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Your Heard Tell Show for 26SEP2023

Taylor Swift vs Content Farmers, Criminal Justice Beyond Buzzwords, TikTok, Border Politics, & more w/ Connor Vasile

Andrew Donaldson
2 min readSep 26, 2023

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Your Heard Tell Show for Tuesday, September 26th, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by taking the latest culture war hot button viral moment — Taylor Swift going to an NFL game — and using it as the latest example of how viral stories don’t happen by accident, how content creators are pushing for pay not narrative truth, how to see backchannels in such stories, and why it has nothing to really do with Taylor at all. Then, we talk about TikTok, and a story about how one account is using facial recognition technology to not only dox and identify folks from their online videos, but raises questions of privacy, rights, and seems to draw more and more people into a mob mentality of hunting down real world humans from their online interactions. Our guest is Connor Vasile who joins Heard Tell for an extended discussion on criminal justice and how we have to get…

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Andrew Donaldson
Andrew Donaldson

Written by Andrew Donaldson

Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Veteran. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag on culture & politics, food writing @yonderandhome, Host @heardtellshow & other media

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