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The President's Daily Brief

April 30th, 2022. Special Brief: The History of Fake News.

The President's Daily Brief

The First TV

Politics, News

4.73.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

It’s April 30th. You’re listening to a special edition of the President’s Daily Brief. Your morning intel starts now. "Fake news" isn't new. We have had biased, leaning, and flat-out misleading news for a very long time. From William Randolph Heart and Joseph Pulitzer to the 2016 Presidential Election, this special brief takes a look at the history of fake news. Also, a suggestion on how to combat the urge to stop reading after the headline, ------ Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of the President's Daily Brief. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

In April 30th, you're listening to a special edition of the President's Daily Brief.

0:07.0

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

0:10.2

Your morning intel starts now.

0:15.4

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

0:19.0

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

0:24.0

of the most critical events in the past 24 hours all delivered to the President each day

0:28.3

by the nation spy masters.

0:30.2

And so ladies and gentlemen, I am your spy and this is your special brief, the second

0:34.8

Saturday that we are covering the issue of fake news.

0:38.8

By now, you have probably seen the headlines and concerns that the Biden administration

0:43.2

and its Department of Homeland Security have set up a disinformation governance board.

0:48.3

I covered in a previous brief this week that there are some odd and even alarming issues

0:53.3

with this development from the very partisan leadership of the new board to a peculiar

0:58.3

focus on the very things that the American people don't particularly like about Joe Biden

1:03.1

to include his handling of illegal immigration.

1:05.8

In other words, Joe Biden is going to decide truth about the things that Joe Biden has

1:10.4

failed on.

1:12.2

There are a thousand great questions that all of this brings up, especially how exactly

1:16.9

this new disinformation governance board will operate.

1:20.3

But one of the questions to consider, I think, is this, is it even possible to stop disinformation

1:26.2

or fake news?

1:27.8

And building on that question, how and who gets to decide what truth is?

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