Disinformation & Conspiracy Theories with Danny Wallace

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Jameela Jamil

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4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Jameela welcomes comedian and author Danny Wallace (Yes Man) for a look down the rabbit hole of disinformation and its slippery slope into conspiracy theories. Danny talks through his personal experience researching his latest book (Somebody Told Me), highlighting what stages of life we are most open to conspiracies and the tribalist online communities that perpetuate them. You’ll hear Danny recount his (often hilarious) investigation into the barrage of digital AI, ChatGPT, and online manipulation while he identified bots & fake accounts, but you’ll also learn some useful ways to talk with loved ones to overcome the disinformation obsession. You'll find more about Danny's book 'Somebody Told Me: One Man’s Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls and Conspiracies' here: https://lnk.to/SomebodyToldMeBook Or find him on IG @verydannywallace

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0:00.0	And I'm Danny Bloody Wallace, Wallis.
0:13.0	Well, I'm gonna'
0:15.0	Danny Bloody Wallace.
0:20.0	Welcome to my way, hi.
0:21.0	It's only bloody me, isn't it?
0:22.0	Look at how swearing already.
0:24.0	What's happened to you?
0:26.0	So rebellious.
0:27.0	This rage, absolute rage pouring from you.
0:30.0	Thank you for coming back onto this podcast.
0:32.0	I'm very excited as always to have you and
0:34.8	anyone who missed the last time you were on please go and listen because it was a fascinating
0:39.2	subject about rudeness and now you're back with another book and it's about a
0:45.0	subject that I could not be, it's perfectly timed for me personally, I don't know about anyone else, but I couldn't be more interested in this subject.
0:53.0	And so I was dying to have you on for a chat,
0:55.8	especially given that a lot of my work
0:57.4	is now going in a similar direction.
0:59.7	And so it's wonderful to have someone who studied this so intensely and been so introspective
1:05.5	about this issue.
1:07.0	And I'm talking about the issue of conspiracy theories and when they take hold of us and the
1:11.4	people we love.
1:12.4	Wouldn't it have been terrible though if you'd done this whole thing about this amazing
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