2024-09-19
22 分钟Donald Trump’s false claim that migrants are eating pets in Springfield Ohio will go down in history as one of the most memorable political soundbites. Jack Brewster, Enterprise Editor at NewsGuard, has traced its origin. AJ Bauer, Assistant Professor, at the University of Alabama, explains how it became a meme. David Rennie has been The Economist’s correspondent in Beijing for the last 6 years. As his posting comes to an end, he reflects on political and cultural change in China, and what it’s been like reporting from a country with ever increasing media restrictions. Parmy Olson, technology columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, has just written a book about the AI arms race and the battle between Google’s Deep Mind and Open AI. At the heart of it, she says in “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World”, is the personal rivalry between two men. Presenter: Katie Razzall Producer: Simon Richardson Assistant Producer: Lucy Wai
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Welcome to the Explanation from the BBC World Service.
I'm Katie Razzle and this is the Media Show.
We're here to explain the trends behind the fast changing media landscape.
This week we're talking about Donald Trump's false claims that migrants are eating pets in Ohio.
We're learning about life as a reporter in China with the Economist's man in Beijing.
And we'll go inside the race for AI and the tech bro rivalries at the heart of it in Springfield.
They're eating the dogs, they're eating the.
Cats, they're eating the pets of the people that live there.
They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats.
That's one of many remixes that Donald Trump's false claim that Haitian immigrants are eating household pets has spawned that one by the musician the Kifnis.
Why would you do that?
False.
It may well be, but the claim has dominated news cycles and one journalist set out to find the source of this now debunked rumor.
Jack Brewster is enterprise editor at NewsGuard, and he's been telling us how he did it.
Yeah.
So finding the source of this claim is almost as interesting as the claim itself.