Fake News

18/11/2020 59 min

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Episode Synopsis

Topics covered in this one:
Podcasting as writing
What is real? What can we trust?
Covid news, election controversies
The Social Dilemma and our individual realities
Fake news masquerades generic ideas as facts
Privacy vs vulnerability
The Great Hack and weaponizing data
We must be better at discerning information
The psychology of conspiracy theories
Vigilance against corruption
Reality is satire
The continued drama of the presidential election
The current COVID lockdown
Failures in journalism
Psychology of isolation and online life
Sympathies and responsibilities
Russian hackers and the Mueller report
The psychology of belief
9/11 as a meme
The Overton window
Big tech as nanny state
Jonathan Haidt and the Coddling of the American Mind
Black Lives Matter as a psy op
The difficulty of dialogue in this world