ICYMI | Encore: Jubilee Is Making Debating Worse

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of Jubilee's controversial content on political debate and extremism.

On today’s encore episode, hosts Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by Slate staff writer Aymann Ismail to discuss the controversial YouTube channel, Jubilee. A video of political commentator Mehdi Hasan debating 20 far-right republicans has gone viral, but as Ismail argues in his piece for Slate, it also crossed a line. When political disagreement becomes content and extremism is rewarded with clicks, everybody loses. This podcast is produced by Daisy Rosario, Vic Whitley-Berry, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Candice Lim, Kate Lindsay

Guest: Aymann Ismail

Topics covered

• debate
• politics
• YouTube
• extremism
• media
• content creation

Keywords

• Jubilee
• debate
• Mehdi Hasan
• political commentary
• extremism
• YouTube

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Slate, Jubilee

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