{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/3dd76634-7b1c-45c2-a9cf-2f6f96d4e0b4/61eb224967286e0012cb1495?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Why People Online Defend the Uighur Genocide","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61435638f581aa08d9520e67/show-cover.png?height=200","description":"<p>Genocide and disinformation. That’s the topic of today’s heady program. I hope none of you have had the pleasure of debating the Uighur genocide with friends or with, god forbid, with anonymous people on the internet. If you have, you may have noticed a certain … uniformity to the arguments despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary.</p><p><br></p><p>It turns out there may be a reason for that.</p><p><br></p><p>Here to help us untangle it all is Alexander Reid Ross. Ross is a senior fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right and senior data analyst at the Network Contagion Research Institute. He’s also the co-author of the report we’re talking about here today <a href=\"https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-big-business-of-uyghur-genocide-denial/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Big Business of Uyghur Genocide Denial</em></a>.</p>","author_name":"Matthew Gault and Jason Fields"}