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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

How disinformation 'sabotages America'

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

News, On Point, Daily, Npr, Talk Show

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade says disinformation is seeping into every aspect of our political and social lives. How can we stop it?

About:

On Point is WBUR’s award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast. Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:18.3

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0:25.2

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0:30.0

This is on point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi. On the evening of December 5th,

0:36.0

2020, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and her four-year-old son were

0:41.8

finishing up decorating the house for Christmas.

0:44.0

As they sat down to watch how the Grinch stole Christmas,

0:48.0

they heard a noise outside.

0:50.0

Stop the steel! Stop the steel!

0:53.2

Stop the steel!

0:55.2

You are a threat to us!

0:57.2

You're a threat to democracy! You're a threat to free and honest elections.

1:05.0

Dozens of armed individuals stood outside my home,

1:09.0

Secretary Benson said in a statement the following day.

1:12.0

It was quite unnerving because I'm all for peaceful protest and certainly protecting people's

1:16.7

First Amendment rights to do that, but you do cross the line when you show up at someone's private

1:20.8

residence in the dead of night, you know, trying to intimidate a public

1:24.8

official out of doing the job they've sworn an oath to do.

1:28.9

The protesters were objecting to the results of the 2020 presidential election.

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