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60 Minutes

60 Minutes 2/7

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

With 60 Minutes off for the Super Bowl this week, in its place, CBS Audio presents a special broadcast of The Debrief with Major Garrett, a weekly politics-focused audio documentary. Major explores the topic of disinformation and how the QAnon conspiracy theory helped fuel the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. This episode includes the entirety of "Disinformation: Part 1" and a special preview of "Part 2."

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0:00.0

I'm Mooraka and I'm back with season three of my podcast, Mo Pituaries.

0:06.2

I'm looking forward to introducing you to more of my favorite people and things.

0:10.8

All of them dead.

0:12.2

From a top dog in 1990's television, to a former top banana.

0:19.6

In the world up to 1960 when the Gromachelle was the only banana that we got, they were

0:24.6

clearly better.

0:25.6

Listen to Moor Pituaries wherever you get your podcasts.

0:32.3

I'm CBS News Chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett.

0:35.8

60 minutes is off this week.

0:37.8

In its place, you will hear excerpts from two episodes of my podcast, The Deep Brief,

0:42.2

with Major Garrett.

0:44.0

We devoted two episodes to a big topic, disinformation.

0:47.6

The storming of the US Capitol shocked the nation and for us, it brought to the fore the

0:52.5

dangers of disinformation in part related to a conspiracy group you've probably heard

0:58.4

a good deal about recently.

1:00.1

It's called QAnon.

1:01.7

In both of these episodes, we talk not only about what disinformation is, what it isn't,

1:07.3

what its dangers are, how social media platforms enlarge the presence of disinformation accelerated

1:13.9

through the universe of ideas and how many Americans, whether they want to or not, can

1:19.9

in some ways become addicted to disinformation.

1:23.9

And that's certainly part of the QAnon story.

1:26.6

And you'll hear from someone who describes himself as a QAnon survivor to explain exactly

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