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Cheryl Ackison here.

Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison

podcast on just the news.com. I hope you will pre-order my new book,

Slanted how the news media taught us to love censorship and hate journalism.

Today, together in this podcast, we're going to take a deep dive into

the sorted recent history of fake news and how it's been weaponized by propagandists in the media.

Today I'm going to

today I'm going to run down some history of the phrase fake news, the phenomenon to fight fake news, the way propagandists have used it for sometimes the opposite of what it seems to be.

I call it the brave new world of fake news and chilling efforts to censor it.

I have written about this and spoken about it in my Ted X talks and in my book The Smear.

But I think it's worth going over again as we approach the 2020 election and really things are just going at a fever pitch in terms of

propaganda and censorship and supposed fake news. So let's talk about what happened right after Donald Trump's shocking victory in 2016.

If you can take yourself back to that time, really forces on both the left and the right were desperately trying to process what had just happened and how.

Because the most powerful and well-funded propagandists and politics, liberals, conservatives, the media, they'd all been

soundly defeated by the Trump victory, made into fools. They'd kind of been

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