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The Gist

Fake News Is Nothing New

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, war games are back. Hoaxes have fooled us at least since the era of P.T. Barnum, but they're especially prevalent in our era of political disinformation. Kevin Young is the author of Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News and tells us about the racist roots of the hoax and how hoaxes often lead us to believe what we wanted to in the first place. In the Spiel, Trump shouldn't try to critique an algorithm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Let me be explicit.

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Right now, in this podcast, there's some explicit language.

0:35.6

It's Wednesday, August 29, 2018, from Slate, it's the gist, I'm Mike Pesca.

0:43.7

In War Game news, yeah, US War games are on in and around Korea again.

0:49.7

It is a weird, weird characteristic of the age that even for a forward-thinking, mostly

0:55.1

dovish military industrial complex type person, that such a person would look at the

1:01.4

return of War games near Korea and say, well, thank God.

1:05.8

But after President Trump canceled the last War games on a whim, Secretary of Defense

1:12.0

Mattis now says the new ones, no, Secretary of Defense Mattis say, yeah, that won't be

1:17.1

happening again.

1:18.1

We have no plans at this time to suspend any more exercises.

1:24.4

In case you were wondering if he, like me, was maybe talking about going easy on the

1:28.3

kettlebells and the preacher curls.

1:30.2

No, unlike me, he now means that, well, the sun's out, therefore, the guns are out.

1:35.8

We suspended several exercises if the direction of the president, the good faith effort was

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