Democracy and Disinformation

Episode #74

On this week’s episode, Bill and Phil take a deep dive into democracy and disinformation, including what we learned from Mark Meadows text messages and January 6th powerpoint presentations, the extensive use of disinformation in political emails, and China’s attempt to troll Biden’s democracy summit. Then we close by pondering whether the next political coup is already underway.

Links related to this week’s episode:

• “Jan. 6 Committee Examines PowerPoint Document Sent to Meadows” by Luke Broadwater and Alan Feuer in The New York Times

• “Mark Meadows, Fox News and the increasingly brazen whitewashing of Jan. 6” by Aaron Blake in The Washington Post

• “Now in Your Inbox: Political Misinformation” by Maggie Astor in The New York Times

• “China trolls Biden summit with Harry Potter jokes and claims to be a democracy” by Christian Shepherd in The Washington Post

• “Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun” by Barton Gellman in The Atlantic

• “Are We Doomed"?” by George Packer in The Atlantic

• “How to Tell When Your Country Is Past the Point of No Return” by Thomas Edsall in The New York Times

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