It's April 23rd, you're listening to a special edition of the President's Daily Brief.

I'm your host and former CIA officer Brian Dean Wright.

Your morning intel starts now.

Before we start a quick reminder to those new to the show, the special brief you're about

to hear is in the same spirit of the actual President's Daily Brief, which is a top secret

summary of the most critical events in the past 24 hours, all delivered to the President

each morning by the nation spy masters.

And so ladies and gentlemen, I am your spy and this is your brief.

This morning, I'm here to relay a developing story that really can't wait for Monday.

You need to be prepared for what's about to come.

It's a political campaign against disinformation or fake news.

Now I know this will sound perhaps dry and academic to some, maybe even boring because

it's not a particularly new issue, is it?

But there's something very peculiar happening this morning.

It's the timing and the people involved that deserve your attention and mine.

In the past 48 hours, two very important political leaders in the Democrat Party have delivered

one perfectly timed message.

And that is that our democracy is imperiled and it's because of disinformation.

First up was former President Barack Obama, who announced a push to regulate social media

platforms all in order to combat what he called disinformation, saying that tech companies

were promoting divisive material and that they required, listen to this, some democratic

oversight.

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