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00:00 Jason introduces the episode
01:59 News – China’s Bitcoin hashrate plummets as US rises
07:53 Ourcrowd – Check out the deal of the week at https://ourcrowd.com/twist
09:03 Interview – Jacob Helberg on disinformation campaigns
19:15 Jacob’s insight from his time at Google News
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24:33 Flooding the zone
28:42 Russian objectives
32:21 The battle over front-end and back-end technologies
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37:53 How China exerts global control
43:24 The cards the US has left to play
48:59 The Taiwan question
57:00 How China got off easy
1:00:08 Xi taking control of China’s tech companies
1:17:35 The world turning a blind-eye to the Uyghurs
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