Barbara McQuade on the Disinformation That's 'Sabotaging America'

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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By early January 2021, 61 courts and the U.S. Justice Department under Donald Trump had rejected the former president’s claims that he’d lost the 2020 election because of fraud. Nevertheless, fed by Trump and those who believed the election disinformation he spread, the Stop the Steal movement flourished and culminated in the January 6 Capitol insurrection. University of Michigan law professor Barbara McQuade has dissected the manipulative messaging tactics disinformers use to promulgate conspiracies like Stop the Steal. We learn how to identify those tactics and what we can do to combat them legally and politically. McQuade’s new book is “Attack from Within.” Guests: Barbara McQuade, professor, University of Michigan Law School - former U.S attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan; author, "Attack From Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.0	The From KQED. From KQED in San Francisco, this is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. When then President Donald Trump
0:57.6	claimed he'd lost the 2020 election because of fraud, more than 60 courts and his own Justice
1:03.4	Department rejected those claims. Nevertheless, the Stop the Steel movement flourished,
1:08.9	leading to an assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.
1:12.6	University of Michigan law professor Barbara McQuaid has dissected the messaging tactics.
1:17.6	Disinformers often used to spread conspiracies, like Stop the Steel, with the hope that we
1:22.6	can guard against them this election year.
1:24.6	Her new book is Attack From Within, And she joins us after this news.
1:33.7	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Ex-President Trump's incitement of the January 6th insurrection
1:43.3	is the basis of the Department of Justice's election subversion charges.
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