About this episode

The episode explores the idea that social media trends may be strategies for data collection, featuring comedian Will Miles.

Are social media trends just a thinly veiled strategy to collect data on us? Comedian and friend of the show Will Miles joins Langston and David to discuss that possibility, as well as answer a voicemail about how antidepressants are more prevalent among white people. 0:00 Robots kicking children in China 8:45 Conspiracy: Every social media trend is a psy-op 36:00 Racial slurs and their rules 41:50 What’s wrong with industry plants? 56:10 Voicemail: White people know secrets about SSRIs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Langston, David

Guest: Will Miles

Topics covered

• social media trends
• data collection
• mental health
• racial issues
• conspiracy theories

Keywords

• social media
• data farm
• conspiracy
• antidepressants
• racial slurs
• industry plants

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: SSRIs

Places: China

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