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"Meet Bùi Như Mai, a 67-year-old Vietnamese grandmother who is also a YouTube
influencer.
“I didn’t think I was going to be a YouTube newscaster at the age of 67. But
these days you will often see me at my daughter’s house, holding my grandchild
while translating articles from
Politico or
The Atlantic into Vietnamese
that I then broadcast on a news channel on YouTube. Every week I try to work my
way through two, if not three articles, which takes one or two full days,” said
Bùi standing in her kitchen, laughing to herself.
“This is not how I imagined spending my retirement.”
Bùi had noticed a lot of right wing misinformation being spread online by
YouTubers in her community, particularly after Donald Trump was elected
president in 2016. After she retired from her job as a software engineer at an
aerospace company in 2018, she ramped up her efforts to fight back,
broadcasting news on YouTube from her home in San Jose, California."
Via Molly White’s
Citation Needed Issue 45:
https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/issue-45-im-the-director-now
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
