On Google Podcasts, a Buffet of Hate
New York Times
He had already been banned from Twitter, but on his podcast he could give full voice to his hateful conspiracy theories.
The podcaster argued that the man in Atlanta who had confessed to killing eight people at massage parlors last week, including six women of Asian descent, was the one who had truly been victimized the casualty of a supposed Jewish plot.
Your heart goes out to the guy, he said.
The remarks, emblematic of a longstanding online network of white supremacists and pro-Nazi groups, werent hidden in some dark corner of the internet, but could be found on Google Podcasts, the search giants official podcast app that was released for Android in 2018 and expanded to Apple devices last year.
As leading social networks like Facebook and Twitter have taken some steps to limit hate speech, misinformation and incitements to violence in recent months, podcasts historically fueled by a spirit of good-natured anarchy stand as one of the last remaining platforms for the de-platformed.