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The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age
Manage episode 412990333 series 2312968
Trey talks with author Sasha Issenberg about his new book The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age, in which he talks about the left's campaign strategies to combat "disinformation" and "misinformation."
Topics Trey and Sasha Cover Include
- why the left is primarily interested in disinformation
- the campaign strategies of Democrats online
- the focus on engagement in political persuasion
- how overseas democracies have faced similar disinformation strategies
- Brazilian cautions for some leftwing approaches to disinformation
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847 episodes
Manage episode 412990333 series 2312968
Trey talks with author Sasha Issenberg about his new book The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age, in which he talks about the left's campaign strategies to combat "disinformation" and "misinformation."
Topics Trey and Sasha Cover Include
- why the left is primarily interested in disinformation
- the campaign strategies of Democrats online
- the focus on engagement in political persuasion
- how overseas democracies have faced similar disinformation strategies
- Brazilian cautions for some leftwing approaches to disinformation
Follow Sasha on X, and check out The Lie Detectives
The Politics Guys on Facebook | X
Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys.
The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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