Fake News & Media Literacy

The Liturgists Podcast

The Liturgists

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 7 March 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

What’s fake news, and how can we spot it? This episode is about media literacy, and offers insights on how to spot fake news, as well as media bias, and skewed data. We talked with Clay Johnson, author of The Information Diet and the co-founder of Blue State Digital, the firm that built and managed Barack Obama’s online campaign for the presidency in 2008. Here’s a few resources to dig deeper: How to tell fake news from real news - TED Ed How to Spot Fake News - FactCheck.org

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0:00.0	Welcome fellow liturgists, if you listened to the last episode, you know that this is the
0:08.3	collapsing set of probability waves, known to some egos that are illusions within the
0:14.4	universe as Michael Gunger.
0:18.2	I just have a quick couple of announcements for you.
0:21.3	Lisa and I are going to be out on tour, if you don't know, we have a band called Gunger.
0:26.5	And this is going to be like a special acoustic broken down tour that's going to be focused
0:33.0	on sharing some stories, taking some questions, playing some of the music from our OneWild
0:39.9	Life series acoustically, and just kind of hanging out and getting to meet a bunch of you.
0:45.5	So please do come out and check out one of these tour stops we'd love to meet you.
0:49.3	March 18th, Seattle, Washington.
0:52.6	March 19th.
0:53.8	We're going to be up in Vancouver, Canada.
0:55.7	March 21st, AIMS Iowa.
0:57.8	March 22nd, Floreset, Missouri.
1:00.6	March 23rd, Memphis, Tennessee.
1:03.1	March 26th, New York City.
1:05.6	March 27th, Catton'sville, Maryland.
1:09.2	March 28th, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1:11.4	March 30th, Spring Harbor, Michigan.
1:13.7	March 31st, Toronto, Canada.
1:16.4	For ticket information for any of these, just go to GungerMusicGUNGOR.com.
1:22.4	SlashTour, GungerMusic.com.slashTour.
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