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China's Global Influence Database and Seth Rich Trolls
The Epoch Times and Australian researchers have revealed a Chinese Communist Party database containing profiles on 2.4 million influential people worldwide, including politicians and tech workers. The data appears to be scraped from sources like Crunchbase. The hosts link this to their own experiences with persistent trolls, including one individual obsessed with the Seth Rich theory.
Stitcher Funding, Venture Capital and Ron Conway Twitter Campaign
Stitcher's business model and funding history are scrutinized, revealing approximately $18.7 million in venture capital from firms like Benchmark and New Atlantic Ventures. Investors such as Ron Conway are identified as potential targets for a listener "tweet bomb" campaign to address the app's failure to update podcast feeds. The practice of inserting pre-roll ads into content without creator permission is highlighted as a major grievance against the platform.
