Hey, Simon Adler here, a producer at the show. Today, we're going to play you an episode we made a while back, back in 2017, and it's about how hard it's getting to decipher fact from fiction. And we wanted to do that because, well, next week we'll be putting out a story showing the real world political consequences of this new reality.

What happens when these tools you're about to hear about get released into the wild.

And so, without further ado, I give you breaking news.

Wait, you're listening.

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You're listening to Radio Lab. Radio Lab. From W. N. Y. C. See? Yeah. All right. Hello, hello, hello. I can hear you. They can't hear me. No, we can hear you. We can hear you.

Yeah, you can. What we can also hear is us twice.

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Hey, I'm Jeddye boomrod. I'm Robert Krollwich. This is Radio Lab, and today. Oops. You don't hear us twice. We have a story about how the echoes of you can go out into the world and come back,

invite you in all of us, really. about how the echoes of you can go out into the world and come back,

invite you, in all of us really, in the butt.

Oh, wait, we maybe we're fine now.

Is my echo gone?

Yes.

Okay, okay, we're good.

And it comes to us from our producer, Simon Adler.

Yeah, Nick, hello. I'm sorry. Okay, we're good. We're good. And it comes to us from our producer, Simon Adler. Yeah, Nick, hello.

I'm sorry.

Okay, so this is Nick Bilton. My name is Nick Bilton. I'm a special correspondent for Vanity Fair. And his beat, you could say, is trying to predict the future of technology. To look into the future, into this kind of crystal ball and try to predict what the next five,

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