Social Media Episodes

Tabloid newspapers that are widely popular in the US, UK and Australia appealed to the Everyman and crafted a streetwise vocab and argot that hit the point. Cheeky, to the point, “take no hostages” writing style resonated withe the masses. But it is disappearing due to woke culture, fear of offending, and rise of TikTok culture.

A tsunami has dethroned the elites from being in charge of information flow to the public. Politicians, Government, Universities are no longer the gatekeepers of what is important for the public to know.

Paranormal phenomena and the psychology behind them. Anomalistic Psychology.

The Telepathy Tapes is a popular podcast that showcases autistic kids who are non verbal but communicate via telepathy.

Online narratives, rumors and propaganda promoted on social media. Trust and Safety. Stanford Internet Observatory,

More than 50% of Americans get their news from social media sources like Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn and even Tik Tok according to Pew Research.

Since most Americans get their news from Social media sites where opinion masquerades as news, our ability to analyze, critique and make judgments based on facts is essential.

Media literacy is so important today since millions of Americans get their news from Social Media which unlike legacy press and TV is neither edited nor curated. Separating fact from fiction, conspiracy theory, falsehood and agitprop can be a full time job. The BBC Trending program tracks social media and shines the light of researched fact on fake news and disinformation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/james-herlihy/message

Twitter, Facebook and the other big social media companies moved toward a curated speech, censorship model during the 2020 campaign. As a result an Alt Tech social media ecosystem has grown up emphasizing the importance of Free Speech in social media. There are now a host of social media companies like Parler that are Free Speech oriented. While they are far smaller than the established players it remains to be seen if they can scale up and compete. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm...

Tik Tok the popular lip syncing video app has exploded in popularity globally during the Covid 19 lockdowns. But Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has threatened to ban it in the US. India and Australia have already done so. Is Tik Tok a Trojan Horse for Chinese Communist Party espionage ? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/james-herlihy/message

The Social Media giant is weathering a month long boycott by some of its advertisers, a critical civil rights audit and controversy about political speech. Yet Mark Zuckerberg’s founding principles for Facebook remain: voice and inclusion. How is the company faring ? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/james-herlihy/message

With the 2020 Presidential election less than 4 months away, Social Media and with it Fake News stories will loom large no doubt, much as they did in 2016. The BBC has a dedicated weekly program called BBC Trending which focuses on Disinformation stories. Why would the world's most respected broadcaster want to give any oxygen to conspiracy theories and disinformation stories ? It is a measure of how far the Internet and its' no holds barred culture has impacted how we get our news. In today's p...

Does the Covid 19 pandemic represent an epochal inflection point in American history ? Will we look back on this time as one of those watershed moments of how things used to be so much better or worse ? Or will the confinement, shelter in place and the horrific death toll melt away like other national traumas ? These are some of the questions we confront in today's episode. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice ...

Podcasting has become an important information medium in the last 15 years with Apple, Spotify, Google, Anchor, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio and iHeart Radio investing heavily in distribution. While barriers to entry are low, survival of the 850,000 Podcasts is always a challenge. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/james-herlihy/message