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ICYMI | Viral Debates: Crossing the Aisle or Clickbait?

ICYMI | Viral Debates: Crossing the Aisle or Clickbait?

Update: 2025-08-09
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On today’s 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. 


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ICYMI | Viral Debates: Crossing the Aisle or Clickbait?

ICYMI | Viral Debates: Crossing the Aisle or Clickbait?

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