A Surgeon General Warning + Is Disinformation Winning? + The CryptoPACs Are Coming

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

The Surgeon General is calling for warning labels on social media platforms: Should Congress give his proposal a like? Then, former Stanford researcher Renée DiResta joins us to talk about her new book on modern propaganda and whether we are losing the war against disinformation. And finally, the Times reporter David Yaffe-Bellany stops by to tell us how crypto could reshape the 2024 elections.

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0:00.0	Casey a little bird told me it's your birthday today.
0:02.8	Happy birthday.
0:04.8	Thank you so much.
0:06.2	And let me just say 58 looks great on you.
0:08.8	Thank you.
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0:15.0	Well in internet years I think I probably am at least 58, if not older.
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0:44.1	Yeah, so this is because sometimes we get listeners writing in to say that they can't tell our voices apart.
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