From WNYC Studios.

I'm Brian Lerer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Thursday, October 31st.

From WNYC in New York, this is America. Are We Ready? Hello, everyone. I'm Brian Lairer from WNYC.

I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Michael Onger. Brooke and I co-host on the media.

And we're here for the next two hours. The basic questions we're putting on the table in this hour are, do you trust the

professional news media more, less, or about the same as you did when Donald Trump first

hit the presidential campaign scene in 2015? And how do you think they're doing it covering Trump

versus his opponents this year? So, Brooke, let's talk about misinformation and disinformation

that professional news media organizations have to keep playing whack-a-mole with,

more than in past generations, I think.

And let's start with some basic definitions.

What's the difference between misinformation and disinformation?

Misinformation is false information that is spread regardless of whether or not there's

intent to mislead. And disinformation is, quote, deliberately misleading or offering biased

information, manipulating narratives or facts, which is propaganda,

and we've seen a whole lot of both over the last few months.

So you got any most high profile, most egregious myths or disinformation narratives?

We've been hearing in the run up to the election some examples.

Oh, yeah. I mean, how far back do you want to go? I mean, we can go all the way back to Kamala,

not being sure if she's black or not. But more recently, you have the lies around FEMA workers

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