Engines of Outrage Pt. 3

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4.8 • 762 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Librarians in Ukraine. Rural newspapers. A tweak to social media algorithms. The infrastructure of a political campaign. All of these offer lessons about how to beat back misinformation and conspiracy theories. But are they enough to pierce the right-wing media bubble?

This episode looks at solutions — from the anodyne to the unsavory — to defuse the engines of outrage and ultimately bring Americans back to a shared reality.

Created and hosted by Ben Bradford.

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0:00.0	Planet Money is there.
0:01.9	From California's most expensive fires ever...
0:04.7	It was my home home.
0:05.9	Yeah.
0:06.6	Grew up there.
0:07.7	It's ashes.
0:09.2	To the potentially largest deportation in U.S. history.
0:12.9	They're going to come to the businesses.
0:14.4	They're going to come to the restaurants.
0:15.7	They're going to come here.
0:17.2	Planet Money.
0:17.8	We go to the places at the center of the story.
0:23.4	The Planet Money podcast from NPR.
0:28.7	This episode contains some strong language. Listener discretion is advised.
0:33.4	By the way, here's the other moment I remember that we were really screwed.
0:40.3	I'm talking to Hani Fareed, the Berkeley professor studying misinformation on the internet who you heard last episode, when he tells me a story.
0:41.7	It's about Facebook.
0:47.7	There was a study Facebook had done, and you can't make this up, called Good for the World, Bad for the World.
0:55.5	This was back in 2020. Facebook had grown to more than two billion daily users, but COVID misinformation was running rampant,
0:59.9	that you could cure it with horse dewormer, that it was part of an Illuminati-like plot.
1:01.9	There was fake news about the election.
1:05.1	The QAnon conspiracy theory was crescendoing.
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