Taylor Swift vs Content Farmers, Criminal Justice Beyond Buzzwords, TikTok, Border Politics, & more

Your Heard Tell Show for Monday, September 25th, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by taking the latest culture war hot button viral moment - Taylor Swift going to an NFL game - and using it as the latest example of how viral stories don't happen by accident, how content creators are pushing for pay not narrative truth, how to see backchannels in such stories, and why it has nothing to really do with Taylor Swift at all. Then, we talk about TikTok, and a story about how one account is using facial recognition technology to not only dox and identify folks from their online videos, but raises questions of privacy, rights, and seems to draw more and more people into a mob mentality of hunting down real world humans from their online interactions. Our guest is Connor Vasile who joins Heard Tell for an extended discussion on criminal justice and how we have to get past the buzzwords to what is really going on, how statistics can do as much harm as good in the discourse, why law enforcement accountability and having the trust of the community is key to any reform, and what we should be focusing on when it comes to cries for "law and order." Plus, host Andrew recounts a story from covering the 2022 midterm to illustrate why the border, immigration, and migrants will continue to be a hot button topic and prime fodder for politicians, pundits, and the public without the problem ever actually being solved.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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