Bots, Trolls, & Haters

About this episode

The episode explores the often harsh and revealing comments about healthcare found online, guided by researcher Ashley Schultz.

Anyone who’s been on the internet and wants to preserve their sanity knows one, eternal truth: Don’t read the comments section. The comments, as we all know, are where our better angels go to die – where we forget our humanity and type out the ugliest, scariest stuff we were apparently thinking all along? Well, today, against our better judgement, we are going to disregard best practice and dig in to what people are saying in the comments about healthcare. Because how are we ever going to win over the people if we don’t know what the people have to say? We tasked our researcher, Ashley Schultz — the most chronically online of our followers, with digging through the dregs of the internet, and she’s here to talk about what she found. https://www.youtube.com/live/qsWogMDDbWw?si=exWiYo0B5L5BTVgC Follow & Support the Pod! Don’t forget to like this episode and subscribe to The Medicare for All Podcast on  Apple Podcasts ,  Google Podcasts , or your favorite podcast platform! This show is a project of the Healthcare NOW Education Fund! This show is a project of the Healthcare-NOW Education Fund! If you want to support our work, you can donate at our…

People in this episode

Guest: Ashley Schultz

Topics covered

• internet comments
• healthcare
• public opinion

Keywords

• comments section
• healthcare debate
• public perception

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