332 - Concordance Over Truth Bias (rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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In this episode, we sit down with three disinformation researchers whose new paper found something surprising about both our resistance and our susceptibility to both true news we wish was fake and fake news we wish was true.

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0:17.0	Middle of the show. The Show. I'm
0:21.6	Bhop
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0:24.6	down into the middle of the
0:27.6	parties and again.
0:28.6	The cool thing of the happy
0:31.6	they went fire.
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0:33.6	That's what I'm talking about the power of a gospel.
0:36.6	Everybody. And the cooling of a happy they went fire. Welcome to the You Are Not So
0:43.9	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, episode
0:47.5	332
0:49.1	I'm
0:49.3	I'm going to My name is David McGraney.
1:06.2	This is the You're Not So Smart podcast.
1:08.6	And let's open this episode about fake news with a question. Have you
1:15.3	ever commented on a post or shared an article on social media or sent a link to a friend
1:22.9	only to later learn that it was either partially or completely fake.
1:30.2	Like actual fake news.
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