Russian Style Disinformation - The Fire Hose of Falsehood

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Donald trump is the greatest disinformation warrior since the 19 thirtis because he figured out to do this stuff in america, ply it to politics. These are very sophisticated propaganda tools, thay go back to lenin, to hitler. They've been used by and refined by russians for years. Vlatimer putton is a master. It's what trump is up to. The big attack on mail voting starts in april of 20 and begins with potty-mouthed people like me who don't really make sense. That's what vladimer pruden is going for. His demagogues can step into that void and say, well, why don

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.