The Enemy Is the Real Enemie Is the Media

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Steve bannon famously said, the real enemy is the media. And we know how to deal with them. We just flood thi on with ship here. This is classic disinformation. People need to know whom they are talking to and whether that person is credible. Every aspect of trust o credibility, is degraded when the zone is flooded with yes. It's not a conspiracy theory that trump and his cronies conspired to do everything youe just described. I just think they're very smart about this information.

Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America’s ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood.

In episode 190, Michael Shermer speaks with Jonathan Rauch as he reaches back to the parallel eighteenth-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the “Constitution of Knowledge” — our social system for turning disagreement into truth. His book is a sweeping and readable description of how every American can help defend objective truth and free inquiry from threats as far away as Russia and as close as the cellphone.