Rolling Stone and Yappa Launch Useful Idiots Live: A virtual live event series encouraging everyone to use their voice

Rolling Stone and Yappa World Inc are proud to announce Useful Idiots Live, a virtual live event series using Rolling Stone’s political podcast featuring Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper, and supercharging it with the Yappa commenting tool to encourage meaningful and respectful political discussions. The premiere event kicks off on November 2^nd at 12:00pm PST /3:00pm EST with special guest Tinashe. Everyone is encouraged to participate in the premiere event by leaving audio and video yaps about the upcoming Presidential election in the Yappa widget location in the Comments section of the Useful Idiots Live! launch article. The most engaging yaps will have the chance to be aired during the live event and responded to by special guest Tinashe. Registration for the free event is currently open in the event landing page atusefulidiotslive.com.

Useful Idiots Live marks the first engagement in a partnership between Rolling Stone and Yappa. The trailblazing commenting tool will also be installed on select Rolling Stone music lists throughout the next several months to encourage friendly and lively engagement among Rolling Stone’s active audience.

“It’s never been more important for people to use the power of their voice, and comments sections on websites are continually being taken down because they are riddled with hate speech, spam and trolls” says Jennifer Dyer, CEO of Yappa World Inc. “We are honored to provide a safe and dynamic commenting solution for the iconic Rolling Stone to enable safe and lively discussions right on their own platform.”

“The impact of this election on our country is going to create serious conversation and we’re looking forward to bringing in some of today’s most influential stars to unfold what’s to come,” said Gus Wenner, President and COO of Rolling Stone. “Working with Yappa and their new platform on this next chapter of Useful Idiots is very exciting for us and we can’t wait to see what comes of these conversations.”

“We’re excited to work with Yappa’s new platform to bring more of our audiences voices into the Useful Idiots conversation,” said Brian Szejka, Publisher of Rolling Stone. “Creating a dialogue is core to our mission, and with Yappa’s support we’ll be bringing some of today’s most influential stars into the fold to discuss this election’s impact on our country.”

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