Fark founder talks trolls and building a media platform | Big Pod #5

Ken and Drew Curtis talk whiskey, tech, what to do in a tsunami, censorship, and the irony of Reddit's wokeism.

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Drew Curtis is the founder of Fark, a news site with a solid dollop of humor. He is also the author of 'It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News.'

You can check out FARK here: https://www.fark.com/

Jump to:
00:00 Intro
00:42 Favorite whiskeys
3:46 All about FARK
6:31 Meeting Reddit's cofounder
8:11 Reddit's irony
9:37 The future of social media?
11:47 The Nazi definition
15:55 Social media bias
19:30 Driving: Now vs. Then
21:44 Tech and old people
24:09 Building a cryptocurrency
30:27 What to do with your money?
34:26 The good side of oil firms
36:28 The truth about natural disasters
41:25 Is the world a better place?
44:20 Raising kids
47:57 Is college a good idea?
53:08 Teachers and COVID
55:03 The COVID rules
1:01:00 Pharma's rise during COVID
1:03:02 How ads work
1:08:21 Are we wasting it?
1:10:50 AI gone wild
11:11:38 Life offline
1:18:05 The news you want to see
1:21: 52 A different algorithm
1:27:45 Outro