Episode 134: Unfriending Facebook

SHOW NOTES EPISODE 134: Unfriending Facebook This week Host Dave Bledsoe tries to Friend himself on Facebook only to be told to fuck off and get blocked. (Sound thinking) On the show this week we talk Russians and social media and why it was so easy to fuck up the election. (Hint: Americans are not very bright.) Along the way we address the terror attack in Manhattan (Fuck that guy, we ain’t scared) and all the dickless wonders trying to “politicize the tragedy”. (Assholes) We giggle happily at the fall of House Manafort and wonder how the guy from Webster got mixed up in all this? (Mister seemed so nice!) We savagely take down the social media networks while simultaneously admitting they are our relationship with a certain cowboy. (Unquittable.) In some of our asides we discuss Dave’s tragic history in Russia. (She seemed so nice!) and why you are depressed every time you log off Facebook. (Hint: Because you were just ON Facebook.) We explain Twitter’s Nazi Rapist problem and why Dave sees so many ads for Ukrainian Bridges. (Typos live forever in the Algorithm) Finally we present a simple, straight forward solution to the problem of Russian propaganda that no one will heed. Our Wayback this week takes us back to 1835 and the origins of Fake News. Our sponsor this week is Vlad, Friend You Know! We open our show this week with The Social Network and close with a pretty, pretty, pretty good song about unfriending people. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZeIQnKUDTw ) Show Music: https://www.jamendo.com/track/421668/prelude-to-common-sense The Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_Podcast The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/ The Show on Soundcloud www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Citations Needed: Russia! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/politics/facebook-google-twitter-russian-interference-hearings.html Moar Russia! https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html Twitter Finally #1 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj7vam/why-twitter-is-the-best-social-media-platform-for-disinformation Et Tu Google? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/technology/google-russian-ads.html Facebook New Feature https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2017/10/02/facebook-and-google-still-have-a-fake-news-problem-las-vegas-shooting-reveals/#e0f592d7138f Now I Know Why I Am Sad https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/what-mentally-strong-people-dont-do/201603/science-explains-how-facebook-makes-you-sad It Shines For All https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_(New_York_City) The Moon! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Moon_Hoax The Great Moon Hoax! http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_great_moon_hoax Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices