June 19, 2022
Offline with Jon Favreau
Steve Bannon’s Very Online Insurrection
In This Episode
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jennifer Senior talks about the internet’s original right-wing troll: Steve Bannon. Would the MAGA movement exist without Bannon? Would Bannon exist without the internet? Jennifer recently published an unsparing profile of Steve Bannon in The Atlantic. He granted her a ton of access, even inviting her to his father’s funeral. She sits down with Jon to talk about what she saw and how Bannon weaponized the internet to fuel the January 6th insurrection.
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