Episode
VICE News Tonight: Episode 54
Overview
3:25 Mormons who support gay marriage are split between their faith and their conscience 10:32 Virginia pulls one of two names out of bowl (really) to decide a delegate seat. VICE News is on hand to see the well-oiled machine that is American democracy. 14:47 Two massive security vulnerabilities have been discovered by researchers in collaboration with Google's Project Zero. The bugs going by "meltdown" and "specter" are putting hardware in danger. 17: 16 VICE News investigates how the $1.6 billion lawsuit against Spotify might affect the company’s IPO. 19: 27 James Spann is a well regarded weather-man based in Birmingham, Alabama, who has been a meteorologist since 1978. But, his views don't exactly correspond with the scientific consensus that humans are causing global warming. VICE News follows him around the newsroom for a day.
Details
- Series
- VICE News Tonight
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 54
- Air date
- 2018-01-04
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Episode 54 is Episode 54 in Season 2 of VICE News Tonight. It aired on 2018-01-04. The runtime is 25 min.
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