Dan Williams on Misinformation

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Yascha Mounk and Dan Williams discuss fake news. Daniel Williams is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He writes the Conspicuous Cognition newsletter, which brings together philosophical insights and scientific research to examine the forces shaping contemporary society and politics. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Dan Williams explore whether the term misinformation is defined too broadly, how to judge if something is fake news, and what is meant by the “everyone is biased” bias. Podcast production by Jack Shields and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! ⁠Spotify⁠ | ⁠Apple⁠ | ⁠Google⁠ X: ⁠@Yascha_Mounk⁠ & ⁠@JoinPersuasion⁠ YouTube: ⁠Yascha Mounk⁠, ⁠Persuasion⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, that's my prime delivery.
0:01.6	Huh, already.
0:02.7	Only one thing can match the buzz of Prime's fast delivery.
0:06.2	And that's the buzz of Prime's entertainment.
0:09.0	What are we watching?
0:09.7	Heads of state, that new action comedy with Idris Elbert as the Prime Minister,
0:13.3	John Sina as the president, and Prianka Chopra Jonas,
0:15.9	as their only hope.
0:17.0	It looks like a blast.
0:18.3	From fast delivery to explosive entertainment, it's on Prime. For only
0:23.0	$899 a month, join now. Content includes limited ads, subscription or to our news. For more information,
0:28.2	go to amazon.com.uk.uk slash Prime. It's probably not a great thing that people with highly
0:34.0	conspiratorial worldviews or really strong hostility towards establishment institutions
0:39.6	are consuming lots of incredibly weird low quality content.
0:43.0	It's not a great thing.
0:43.8	But the idea that this is behind, for example, Trump's election victory or Brexit,
0:49.5	it's just not a credible theory of public opinion formation.
0:53.5	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
1:02.8	One of the things that we like about substack is that it sometimes leads you to discover
1:06.4	new voices, new writers who really have a special set of insights about the world.
1:12.3	One of the people who I've been reading with particular pleasure for the last year or so
1:16.5	is Dan Williams.
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