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Apple glucose monitor rumors, Marvel fatigue, and podcast misinformation

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Podcasts

Apple's Top 100 podcasts are overwhelmingly conservative. The worst offenders had rates of 15%, 20% of their episodes with this sort of misinformation. Some shows really do kind of air a lot of these types of claims somewhat frequently, like maybe one in 10 episodes for some of them. And so I don't see this necessarily as something that will be fading or that is concentrated amongst just a few people.

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