Aug 15, 2019
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Light demolition work is scheduled here at Kagro in the Morning World Headquarters for this morning. David Waldman was set to broadcast the first half hour of the show naked on a wrecking ball, but that was voted out as a “dated pop reference.” He’s still going to do it mind you, just not on the air, as he instead recorded a special international edition of KITM for release today:
We start in the US, with Moscow Mitch McConnell, and the story of how he earned that sobriquet, by trading Russian sanctions for Kentucky aluminum.
Then off to Brazil, to understand how YouTube’s artificial intelligence powered recommendation engine steered viewers to the right, to the far right, and to the extreme right with successive viewings. The global far-right nationalist machine rolling out of Russia has rolled over Sweden, with the help of Stormfront, Fox News, Rebekah Mercer... and John Bolton.