Nick's Non-fiction

Nick’s Non-fiction | So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

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Welcome back for another episode of Nick’s Non-fiction with your host Nick Muniz! Jon Ronson is the go-to source for cancel culture in the 2010s with his national bestseller So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. For the book Jon periodically interviewed Justine Sacco who drew 12 billion Google hits from her tweet, “Going to Africa this weekend, hope I don't get AIDs. jk, Im white”. Jon takes the story a layer deeper discovering bot farms, infomorphs and Twitter imposters who cracked the mobs whip. Later chapters expose the men behind the algorithms as Jon was ostracized from his Washington Post/NYTimes writer friends for insufficiently supporting their agenda. As we witness the death of Hollywood it becomes more evident as a culture one of our favorite things to do is build something up just to tear it right back down. It’s concerning that the worlds formidable power is running off a document built to restrict three branches of government with no mention of global state run media, something the founding fathers c