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Episode 80: Media Matters CEO Angelo Carusone Gives Us a Masterclass in Misinformation

What the Hack with Adam Levin

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Do They Respond to You?

In 2019, we were really concerned about deep fakes and manipulated media. Not a single social media platform had a prohibition ondeep fakes or manipulated media. And what we did is we really focused in on the platform to show them that there were real political consequences for them if they let this proliferate. In October of 2020, Facebook said they banned violent QAnon groups. That was a difference maker for the effectiveness of the, of the insurrection because at that time the QAnon infrastructure on Facebook was the single largest source of online to offline action. Period.

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