Lie, Cheat, & Steal
Lie, Cheat, & Steal
Kath Barbadoro, Pat Sirois
PATREON PREVIEW: The Feed is Fake: The Social Engineering of Social Media
8 minutes Posted May 21, 2026 at 4:00 am.
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Kath tells Pat about the world of clipping, narrative campaigns, and other discursive manipulations that affect our algorithms, taste in music, and culture at large.

This episode is primarily a discussion of the Vulture article "The Feed is Fake" by Lane Brown. Read it here: https://www.vulture.com/article/social-media-feeds-chaotic-good-projects-clipping.html

We also discuss and quote from Eliza McLamb's article "Fake Fans", which kicked off this discussion a few weeks ago: https://substack.com/@elizamclamb/p-192801490


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