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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Aug 30, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
On The Gist, war games are back.Hoaxes have fooled us at least since the era of P.T. Barnum, but they’re especially prevalent in our era of political disinformation. Kevin Young is the author of Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News and tells us about the racist roots of the hoax and how hoaxes often lead us to believe what we wanted to in the first place.In the Spiel, Trump shouldn’t try to critique an algorithm.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Aug 30, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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