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From the NYT today
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/technology/joe-biden-internet.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Technology
Joe Biden is very famous, but you wouldnt know it from looking at his YouTube channel.
Mr. Biden has just 32,000 subscribers on the influential video platform, a pittance compared with some of his rivals in the Democratic primary race and roughly 300,000 fewer than President Trump. The videos that Mr. Biden posts these days, mostly repurposed campaign ads and TV-style interviews filmed from the makeshift studio in his basement rarely crack 10,000 views. And the virtual crickets that greet many of his appearances have become a source of worry for some Democrats, who see his sluggish performance online as a bad omen for his electoral chances in November.
This video is 2 days old and its sitting at 20,000 views, one commenter wrote under a recent video of Mr. Bidens. This is a guy that is supposed to beat Trump?
In a normal election year, a former vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee would have no trouble filling an arena. But the coronavirus has forced Mr. Biden to abandon in-person gatherings and adapt to an all-digital campaign strategy a daunting pivot even in the best of times, but one made even harder by the need to compete for attention amid a pandemic and a once-in-a-generation economic collapse.
The shift has been clumsy for Mr. Biden, an old-school retail politician who relishes face-to-face interactions. He lacks the social media firepower of Mr. Trump, whose 106 million combined followers on Facebook and Twitter dwarf Mr. Bidens 6.7 million, and whose White House coronavirus briefings have allowed him to commandeer the news cycle. Mr. Bidens first virtual town hall last month was marred by technical problems, and some of his other digital experiments like a soporific campaign podcast, Heres the Deal, which did not rank among the top 100 podcasts on Apple Podcasts as of this week have not gone as well as hoped.
docgee
(870 posts)FarPoint
(12,209 posts)We need a sharp team!
DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)Will get family and friends to do so.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)So I just did.
cayugafalls
(5,631 posts)Russian trolls are all over it.
Here is the video linked in the article:
Dang that is not good.
Edited to add:
Fortunately, it seems to be only that video.
Chiyo-chichi
(3,563 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)News is blowing by us at Cat 5 levels. Hard to keep up with everything.
SaintLouisBlues
(1,244 posts)W_HAMILTON
(7,813 posts)I went looking for it myself and wasn't sure if this was the correct one or not, with all the imposters out there.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
stillcool
(32,626 posts)underpants
(182,279 posts)W_HAMILTON
(7,813 posts)If so, I went ahead and subscribed, but I want to make sure since the part of the article I could read didn't link his official YouTube channel and you know how many imposters there are out there...
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Trying to open an account and it wont sent me to confirmation code.
eleny
(46,166 posts)I listen via iTunes. But there's other access like at Spotify and Stitcher or Biden's campaign site.
https://joebiden.com/heres-the-deal/