E366. We're Being Lied To Every Day - Jacob Siegel

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🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Original Air Date - 6/21/23 Revisit a Walk-Ins Welcome classic Journalist and senior director of news at Tablet magazine, Jacob Siegel, sits down with Bridget to discuss his recent article A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century. In a chilling conversation Jacob explains the sudden pervasiveness of disinformation and how it became an organizing principle in most of the federal bureaucracy, the wholesale fraud being perpetrated on Americans, the precipitating factors,...

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0:00.0	All right. I'm with Jacob Siegel, everybody. Welcome to Walk-In's welcome. Thanks for having me.
0:06.6	It's so good to have you. I mean, you're just a brilliant writer and one of my favorite
0:11.3	journalists and writers out there. So I really have wanted to talk to you for a while. But more
0:17.4	importantly, you wrote this incredibly in-depth, long-form piece,
0:22.8	a guide to understanding the hoax of the century for Tablet.
0:26.1	And it was amazing.
0:28.6	I mean, I don't even know how do you start to tackle a piece like this?
0:35.1	Well, that's a wonderful introduction.
0:37.7	And I'm happy to be here talking.
0:39.0	Everyone should read this.
0:40.8	So tell me, yeah, how do you approach a piece like this?
0:44.3	What is the, what is your process?
0:47.1	Long.
0:47.9	It took really, I think two and a half years, something like that.
0:52.1	Wow.
0:52.9	Yeah.
0:53.1	How many words was it? 13, years, something like that. Wow. Yeah. How many words was it?
0:55.0	13,400, something like that.
0:58.0	Over 13,000 words, yeah.
1:00.0	Just to give listeners a bit of context, like a 5,000 word piece is considered long.
1:06.0	So this was two and a half times longer than a long magazine essay.
1:11.3	It's crazy.
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