320 - Misguided - Matthew Facciani

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🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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What is misinformation? How does it differ from disinformation or just plain ‘ole propaganda? How do we protect ourselves from people with nefarious intentions using all of these things to affect our thoughts, feelings, and behavior? That’s what we discuss in this episode with Matthew Facciani, social scientist and author of Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How it Spreads, and What We Can Do About It.

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0:49.8	I'm going to be a lot of The classic example is like someone who is very convinced they are unbiased.
1:09.6	But that thought process of really stridently
1:12.8	thinking you're unbiased, ironically, makes you more biased because you're not open to the idea
1:19.1	that you could be wrong. So you're just following this very narrow track in your mind that
1:24.0	allows you to believe various falsehoodss even though you think you're not.
1:39.3	That was the voice of Matthew Facciani, who is a doctor of sociology, a sociologist, and an interdisciplinary social scientist, which means he researches neuroscience, psychology, and sociology, and then
1:45.9	mushes them all together to help make sense of the world. His focus these days, his specialty,
1:51.4	is media literacy, which means he studies misinformation and polarization and how nefarious actors
1:58.2	manipulate all of us on purpose to get us to think, feel, and do things they would like us to think, feel, and do.
2:06.6	He studies all of that and then comes up with ways to better combat all of that and teaches it to people in the form of media literacy.
2:16.2	He has a podcast called Misguided, and he just released a new
2:20.0	book titled Misguided, which is all about misinformation, where it starts, how it spreads,
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