Before we start a quick warning about today's show, it's all about fake news.

How to diagnose it, how to avoid it, how to combat it, send this episode to everyone

who sends you disinformation.

Alright, let's go.

2020, 2020.

It's today explained I'm Sean Ramis from a

I got an uncle who emails me a lot of fake news stuff about President Trump, stuff about President Obama, stuff about protesters destroying Catholic churches.

Sometimes they're elements of truth in what he sends me, but you really gotta excavate them.

And when the stuff he sends me is just infuriatingly fake, I write back.

I challenge him to do a little research to dig, but he never responds.

But I don't like giving up.

So today we're going to do some digging for all the uncles out there on the show because the election is coming.

And the commander in chief himself is spreading disinformation about Black Lives Matter, about Joe Biden, about Kenosha.

It's a good time to brush up on your media literacy and day Zhang is here to help.

We get questions about fake news quite often actually.

Believe it or not, he's a friendly neighborhood librarian in Seattle.

And it was really in 2016 during the presidential election cycle when we really started getting a lot of people coming into a library

and calling into the library asking about things that were showing up on their social media accounts,

news stories that they would hear that oftentimes sounded very extreme or sensational.

And they just weren't sure whether it was credible or not.

And so we really put our skills to the test.

And we decided to create this class called the Fake News Survival Guide.

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