Topic: Fact Free

President Trump escalated his feud with Twitter after the platform applied fact-check labels to his tweets regarding mail-in ballots. Trump threatened to regulate or close down social media companies, though legal experts noted the First Amendment limits such authority. Simultaneously, a series of news reports featured identical scripts praising Amazon's $800 million investment in employee safety and wages during the pandemic.

A news trend involving Millennials "discovering" broadcast television via digital antennas is discussed as a humorous tech "hack." Simultaneously, the fact-checking website Snopes is reported to be in financial and legal trouble. There is a suggestion for tech-savvy listeners to "spider" or archive the Snopes database before the site potentially goes offline due to its internal disputes.

The hosts identify a new linguistic trend they call "modified uptalk," characterized by stretching out the last word of a sentence without a rising pitch. They play a clip of an activist demonstrating this style, noting how such idiosyncrasies spread through specific social "milieus." Additionally, they discuss the emergence of the term "fact-free" as a new media meme, following "post-truth" and "fact-check," to describe political rhetoric.