Andrew Rossi on "After Truth," a new HBO documentary about the disinformation age

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🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Brian Stelter, executive producer of "After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News," shares a preview of the film and speaks with director Andrew Rossi about the real-world consequences of disinformation. Stelter and Rossi dissect "several case studies from 2015 to 2018" in the film, from the Jade Helm conspiracy theory to "Pizzagate." They discuss their decision to focus on the "victims" and "perpetrators" of false news. Rossi explains, "You have people who are pushing the false stories, and then you have people who are the subject of them and are actually victims, and they are suffering a cost."To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to this week's Reliable Sources Podcast on a week that is anything but ordinary.
0:08.0	I'm your host Brian Stelter and I know the pandemic is all anybody's really talking about and thinking about.
0:15.0	There's such a need for accurate, reliable information at this moment in time especially.
0:21.0	And that makes the menace of disinformation all the more important.
0:25.0	You know, we've been seeing this on social networks, propaganda campaigns and profiteers, promoting
0:31.0	lies and hoaxes involving the pandemic trying to mislead people about
0:35.1	the threat posed by the coronavirus.
0:37.4	It is shameful.
0:39.2	But thankfully there are lots of journalists out there fact-checking, correcting, calling it out.
0:44.8	And I want to start a broader conversation about disinformation and the real life consequences.
0:50.9	I mean that's what we're seeing right now, with people who maybe didn't take this virus seriously enough.
0:56.0	His information has been with us for years. It's going to be with us for many more years to come.
1:01.0	And it's the subject of a brand new documentary that I happened to be
1:05.2	the executive producer of so hey surprise surprise I I want to tell you all about
1:08.9	it it's an HBO film titled After Truth and the director is Andrew Rossi.
1:15.8	He really is the one that deserves all the credit, so I've asked him to sit down with
1:18.7	in the ear and talk about the film and give you a preview.
1:21.7	Andrew, great to see you.
1:23.0	Great to see you, Brian.
1:24.0	And we are still talking in person here, despite the virus threat.
1:28.0	We've maintained a proper distance, I think.
1:31.0	We were going to have a premiere of the film in New York and then it was going to be at
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