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on WNYC and as we continue to cover the election our colleagues at on the media

are continuing to cover the coverage of the election that doesn't just mean

what's in the network news stories and things like that.

It's about the influencers on social media who answer to no editors or fact checkers.

It's about the lies and disinformation spreaders who seek to undermine our democracy, not just

persuade people to their candidate or point of view.

And if you feel like you're seeing a campaign commercial on TV or on your phones like every two seconds.

Well last weekend on the media did a segment on the overwhelming amount of money

making all those messages possible.

Here's a short clip of co-host Michael Loeinger

asking Rolling Stone political reporter Andrew Perez about a particularly brazen

fundraising request. And then there was that time in April when Donald Trump hosted a dinner in Marilago with a bunch of oil executives.

Trump said, raise me a billion dollars, and he effectively promised them anything they could want, you know,

saying that this would be a deal because they would save money on their taxes,

and he would roll back

Biden's clean energy agenda.

Trump also promised to fast track oil company mergers,

which have been slowed by the Biden administration.

So he's been promising the oil industry a suite of goodies.

This is a very explicit test of whether there are public corruption rules.

Like if you can just say,

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