Episode 487: Joe Bernstein

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Joe Bernstein is a senior reporter for BuzzFeed News. “The question of disinformation is almost an attempt to create a new mythology around why people act the way they do. I don’t mean to say that it’s some kind of nefarious plot. ... It’s a natural, or a convenient explanation. And that’s why I think it caught on for some time anyway.” Show notes: @Bernstein Bernstein on Longform 02:00 "Bad News: Selling the Story of Disinformation" (Harper's • Aug 2021) 12:00 "How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable" (Nicholas Confessore • New York Times • Apr 2022) 18:00 Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (Tim Hwang • FSG Originals • Oct 2020) 25:00 Charlie Warzel on Longform Podcast (Mar 2020) 26:00 "'Look At What We’re Doing With Your Money, You Dick': How Peter Thiel Backed An 'Anti-Woke' Film Festival" (BuzzFeed News • Mar 2022) 28:00 "The Curious Life and Mind-Altering Death of Justin Clark" (Christopher Robbins • New York Magazine • Feb 2022) 36:00 "'Corrosive Communities': How A Facebook Fight Over Wind Power Predicts the Future of Local Politics in America" (BuzzFeed News • Dec 2021) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.6	I'm Aaron Lammer, I'm here with my co-host Max Linsky and Evan Ratliffe.
0:55.4	Hey, you guys.
0:56.4	Hey, Aaron.
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1:01.4	This week on the show, I'll tell you, I'm going to give the listeners a little behind
1:05.2	the scenes insight into how the show comes together, sitting in my chair, and I was reading
1:11.8	an article about disinformation.
1:15.9	Not so much like, oh god, we need to be worried about disinformation, but like, what is disinformation?
1:23.1	Who are the people who are sort of building careers around expertise in disinformation?
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