Renee DiResta, professor and author of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality, joins the show again to dive deeper into disinformation, propaganda, and "pseudo-events," or manufactured controversies and news stories.She explains why it&rsquo;s so difficult to tell fact from fiction online, how propagandists stoke real, often legitimate tensions to create division, how American politicians are amplifying false information instead of shutting it down, and possible policies that could help reduce our culty social media silos.SOURCES <a href="https://www.reneediresta.com/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.reneediresta.com/&source=gmail&ust=1764219736034000&usg=AOvVaw2gk3HA888WoOmy4wNEnac7">Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image:_A_Guide_to_Pseudo-events_in_America" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image:_A_Guide_to_Pseudo-events_in_America&source=gmail&ust=1764219736034000&usg=AOvVaw1pD8rE6P01KpG_OQ7SD9iK">The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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