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Institutional Capture at Every Level - Leighton Akio Woodhouse, Public

The DemystifySci Podcast

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The Cost Benefit Analysis of Disinformation

I think it's got to be a cost benefit analysis right like does all of your strangling of information lead to a better place even if you have lots of bad ideas circulating around. The biggest propagator of disinformation in the United States in American history has been the US government not American citizens as far as I can tell. In fact the only like disinformation the like specific weaponization of disinformation to say affect a electoral campaign that I can point to happened in Alabama around the Roy Moore race which was run by Renee D'Arresta she was the one who ran this disinformation operation to affect an election before going on to head the election integrity project to prevent Russian disinformation from disrupting American elections.

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