This is Dahlia Lithwick. I'm host of this the Amicus podcast and co-host with Rick

Hassan of our very special election meltdown series which we've just read. If

you enjoyed this series I want to let you know that there's more of it we

did extended and bonus interviews with Dale Ho, director of the ACLU's

Voting Rights Project. Professor of government at Dartmouth, Brandon Nion, main

secretary of state Matt Dunlap and Michigan Secretary of State,

Jocelyn Benson. I think they really give the fullest scope of all the issues

that we have covered in this series and all of them are available right now if

you sign up for Slate Plus. It's only $35 for the first year and you'll be

helping support the work we do here at Amicus and at Slate. So head over to

Slate.com slash Amicus Plus to sign up now you don't want to miss out on these

bonus episodes and in fact we have a preview of one of those conversations right

here where Brandon Nion explains why he's more concerned about disinformation

that originates within the United States than online influence campaigns

coming from overseas. The 2016 election was notable in a number of respects. One

was the unprecedented volume of misinformation and the role played by social

media. So I want to break that down. The Russian interference effort was

unprecedented in how brazen and open it was and seem to have succeeded at gaining

widespread distribution, the Facebook and Twitter to many Americans. So the

Russian bots and trolls and all the different ways that the Russian government

effort tried to reach Americans was successful in the sense that millions of

Americans had at least some contact with content that was produced by the Russian

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