We visit the funeral for CrowdTangle, a social listening app that was used by disinformation and human rights researchers. Mike talks with Dallas Taylor, host of the podcast 20k Hertz, about why podcasts sound the way they do. And also: videogame menu music!

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Intro Links

• Brazil's top court says X paid pending fines to wrong bank – Reuters
• Musk's X paid $5 million in fines to the wrong bank, Brazil's Supreme Court said - Business Insider
• After weeks of drama, SF tech CEO gives workers $30,000 to quit – SFGate
• 159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO’s fight with WP Engine escalates – TechCrunch
• How to Delete Your 23andme Data Amid the Company's Turmoil – MSN
• California enacts laws to protect child influencers' financial security – NBC
• DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says – ArsTechnica 

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CrowdTangle, We Barely Knew Thee

• RIP Crowdtangle
• David Karpf
• Kevin Roose’s Twitter Bot

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Why Do Podcasts Sound Like That, with Dallas Taylor

• Dallas’ LinkedIn Post - LinkedIn
• 20k Hertz
• DeFacto Sound

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. 

Having been taught by fools, how else could i have ended up but as I am? a man who panics at the sound of his own voice, a blusterer, afraid that within the five pointed maple leaf there lies another name he never knew; ready, always, to be found wrong. 

Excerpt of ON FIRE by Andrew Feld

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