They saw a YouTube video. Then they got Tourette’s
The weird link between YouTube videos and a rise in Tourette’s-like symptoms in young women and we explore the fight for control of Afghanistan’s internet.
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Show Notes
Coming up today… the weird link between YouTube videos and a rise in Tourette’s-like symptoms in young women and we explore the fight for control of Afghanistan’s internet.
The stories we talked about this week:
They saw a YouTube video. Then they got Tourette’s
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tourettes-youtube-jan-zimmermann
The battle for control of Afghanistan’s internet
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/afghanistan-taliban-internet
The Taliban’s vast propaganda machine has a new target
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/taliban-propaganda-news-afghanistan
Music by Filip Hnizdo
Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess
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