It Unfortunately Happens On X (E298)

QAA Podcast

Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

News

4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Today’s show is a piñata, and each time a blindfolded Travis takes a swing at it, a new and weirder piece of candy falls to the ground for Jake and Liv to nibble on. First, we’ll be talking about how even conspiracy theorists had to push back against a terribly lazy hoax about VP candidate Tim Walz. Then we’ll be talking to reporter Robyn Pennacchia about her deep dive into a majorly pilled telegram community whose leader disperses intel drops she claims come from both the military and celestial angels. And as a special desert, we’re sitting down with reporter Ken Klippenstein to discuss his recent defeat & subsequent victory against Elon, after Ken linked to his reporting about the JD Vance dossier. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/QAA Robyn Pennacchia: https://x.com/RobynElyse // https://substack.com/@robynelyse Ken Klippenstein: https://x.com/kenklippenstein // https://www.kenklippenstein.com Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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0:36.1	I'm going to be Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, If you're hearing this well well done. You found a way to connect to the internet. Welcome to the QAA podcast episode 298. It unfortunately happens on X.
0:42.6	As always, we are your host, Jake Rakatanski,
0:45.2	Live Ikar, and Travis View.
0:47.8	Just last month, the Pew Research Center released a poll which revealed that 54% of US adults a little bit more than half
0:56.1	at least sometimes consumed news on social media. That includes 25% of US adults who say that they often get their news from social media,
1:05.1	which is the highest number that they have documented since they started
1:08.6	polling this question.
1:09.8	It's honestly, I feel like that's surprisingly low given how important online is to like a lot of the election cycle.
1:17.3	I guess like the people who are online are just like like all everyone who's running the country has a Twitter account.
1:23.2	Yeah, it seems, it seems, I mean, I think like for myself who's perhaps like steeped in this stuff,
1:30.0	it seems like you know everybody, you know, who, you know, with, you know, with any degree of influence or power has an account and wants to promote their views on social media.
1:37.8	It seems like it would be more, but I still think that like the fact that like a quarter of US adults do it often considering that includes you know older
1:45.3	Americans though you know the total population yeah I think it's a lot yeah it's enough of the
1:49.7	population to produce the terrifying results in politics that we see.
1:55.0	But as the number of people who rely on social media for news increases, it seems like the problems associated with doing so get worse.
2:03.2	Especially on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, where accounts with blue check marks
2:08.7	go viral by fabricating evidence of serious crimes, its AI program Grok treats clearly made up claims as if they were real,
2:17.0	and its owner, Elon Musk, moderates the platform in the manner that is totally arbitrary arbitrary according to his passing whims.
2:24.7	So for today's episode, we're going to be talking about an account that that makes viral claims
2:29.0	so outrageous that even some QAnon accounts are pushing back against it.
2:33.4	Then we'll be talking to Robin Pinocchio from Wanchette about how these
2:37.6	batshic claims from a strange telegram channel have made their way to
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