The Michael Berry Show

Welcome to our bonus podcast honored to have you here

Quick reminder of the bonus podcast. We've been doing two a day. I don't want to be committed that we'll do two a day every day because it's not easy, but there's

a lot to talk about right now with it being election season.

We'll see how it goes in time.

We do them in about 10 minute segments. We don't have to stick to a clock like we do with the radio.

So some may be longer, some a little shorter.

But just so you know, we find that that 10 minutes works for us on different

podcasts that we listen to so we figured it kind of a bite-sized piece and that's

why we've been doing them that way. All right. Without further ado, it is election season

and therefore it's also disinformation season.

In the election of 2020, we had Russian disinformation, remember?

When you hear the term fake news, you probably think about how it's used often today by President

Trump.

But it's actually an old term used by the Soviet Union as a reference to disinformation campaigns that the

Soviets and now the Russians have long used to destabilize the West.

U.S. officials have warned that Russian interference remains an active threat for the 2020 presidential elections.

An unverified story about former Vice President Joe Biden's son and the laptop allegedly full of his old

emails. It's a story raising concerns about whether it's real or just designed to

sow confusion in the final weeks of the election.

Rudy Giuliani already had open contact with a person that the U.S. has called an agent for the Kremlin.

Now, we are being told by two people who have been briefed on what the FBI is doing that they're

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